Will the U.S. Strike Iran?
February 27, 2026 5:31pm
Publicly available, non-classified reports indicate that the U.S. Navy has put to sea its ships in Bahrain, home to the Fifth Fleet. The reason for putting ships to sea is because they are better defended in open waters than tied up at the piers. Bahrain is on the western shore of the Persian Gulf across the water from Iran.
Reports also indicate that the Navy's facilities in Bahrain have been scaled back to mission-critical levels. This, coupled with the State Department advising Americans to leave several Middle East countries, may indicate that a U.S. military strike on Iran is imminent. I hope it is. We should have attacked Iran last month when there was a massive citizen uprising against the regime. But if President Trump makes the decision to attack Iran, he better be making it for the right reasons.
The primary goal of every decent person should be denying Iran the nuclear weapons it desires. Because if the mad mullahs who rule Iran obtain nuclear weapons, it would detrimentally change the balance of power in the Middle East and threaten the entire planet. Consequently, Iran must be denied nuclear weapons at all costs. All costs.
But if the United States takes military action against Iran, it cannot limit the destruction to only Iran's nuclear weapons program. The goal MUST be regime change. Because if we don't achieve regime change, then all we'd accomplish is kicking the nuclear can down the road as every president since Jimmy Carter has done. We can do so no longer. Iran is the world's biggest sponsor of international terrorism. Between its proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Harakat al-Nujaba, the Houthis, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps themselves, Iran has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans and allies alike. That needs to stop.
The Jerusalem Post reported that President Trump has not yet ordered an attack on Iran because, for political reasons, he wants Israel to take the lead. The stated reason is that the Administration believes more Americans would stomach a war with Iran if the United States or an ally were attacked first. It's certainly true that more Americans would stomach a war under those circumstances. Nonetheless, I hope that report is false. Because Israel will bear the brunt of Iran's response, our Israeli allies must be involved. But Iran is our war.
Should the U.S. attack Iran? Absolutely we should. But only if we are committed to fighting until Iran is no longer ruled as an Islamic theocratic state. If we aren't committed to achieving a secular government in Tehran, then we shouldn't attack at all. I hope we do attack. But let me be clear. I do not want President Trump to start a war in Iran. I want President Trump to end the war the Iranians started in 1979.