Note To America Haters: Sorry, We’re Busy Kicking Ass

Ignore those who are preaching doom. America rocks.

America is experiencing a totally exceptional moment.

This country just kicks ass.

We are sending human beings around the moon for the first time in decades.

We are performing some of the most extraordinary military operations in all of human history, killing terrorists, delivering the most targeted strikes from the most sophisticated weaponry ever built.

We are rescuing pilots in Mission: Impossible-style operations.

On Monday, the Artemis II astronauts made history by traveling farther than any human being has ever gone.

According to The Wall Street Journal:

Just before 2 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, the astronauts on Artemis II steered their Orion craft into the record books, flying more than 248,655 miles from Earth, which is the furthest that human beings have ever gone.

Human beings are doing unbelievable things because America kicks absolute ass.

President Trump called the Artemis crew to congratulate them.

“Tell me, what is the most unforgettable part of this really historic day?” he asked. “The whole world is watching and listening. Please tell me.”

“Mr. President, this call is certainly special to all of us, and we really have a lot of faith in our administrator, Jared Isaacman, who is with you,”  Commander Reid Wiseman responded. “We appreciate his leadership in NASA and in the international community. We are doing great things and we are proud to be a part of … I have to tell you, as we came around the near side of the moon, seeing all the sights that we’ve seen from Earth for all of our lives, but we’re seeing them from a different perspective, and then we started to get a glimpse of the …  And we saw sights, oriental sights that no human has ever seen before, not even in Apollo, and that was amazing for us. And then the surprise of the day: We just came out of an eclipse where the sun, moon and the entire dark moon, about that big, right out the window that we were watching, we could see the corona of the sun, and then we could see the planet train line up, and then Mars, and all of us commented how excited we are to watch this nation and this planet become a two-planet species.”

America rocks.

And you know what? It’s part and parcel of an inspiring vision for the United States. I know we don’t talk about the United States that way, or haven’t in recent years, but America is an unbelievably inspiring place.

That’s the reason why everyone is clamoring to get here, not just because we can put human beings 250,000 miles away going around the moon, but also because when people come here, they are inspired to create and to build and to build better lives for themselves and their families.

It’s because the American system offers them that opportunity, and because America is, in fact, the guarantor of security on planet Earth. It’s because the United States, the same United States that takes humans and puts them 250,000 miles away around the moon, is the same United States that stands up to the thuggish, theocratic tyrants in Iran who want to develop nuclear weapons and develop into intercontinental ballistic missiles, and who wish to spread terrorism all over the region against us and our allies.

We stand up to them.

What President Trump is providing is an inspiring vision of what the United States should be.

And guess what? We are making it happen in real time.

The president has provided the Iranian regime an off-ramp over and over and over and over again. This is the part that everyone seems to just ignore: If Iran did not wish to be in the gun sights of the United States military, all they would have to do is stop developing nuclear weapons, stop developing long-range ballistic missiles, and stop funding terrorism.

That is all they would have to do. That’s it. And they could have done this at any time for 47 years.

They could have done this at any time. They would have been reintegrated into the world economy. They would have been treated as a member of the family of nations. Their concerns would have been heard.

Instead, they decided that they were going to double down on their theocratic tyranny, that they were going to rush toward a nuclear weapon, that they were going to back every major terrorist group in the region and beyond.

They decided to do that. That was their decision.

The difference now is that this president understands that it is not in the interest of the United States to allow that cancer to fester, that the gangrenous limb that is the Iranian cannot be allowed to poison the entire region and beyond.

That’s why the president took the stand that he is taking right now.

And guess what? We are kicking the hell out of the Iranian military. We are. There is no standard in military history by which we are not kicking the hell out of them. We have put their entire navy underwater. We have taken their entire air force out of the sky. We have taken their ballistic missile launcher capacity to near zero. We have destroyed their steel factories. We have been hitting specific Basij checkpoints in Tehran. We’ve been bombing every nuclear facility we can find. 

And still, President Trump is offering them an off-ramp; all they would have to do is open the Strait of Hormuz and give up their nukes.

Do it, and we’re done. The war would be over. That’s all.

They won’t do it.

Ask yourself: Why? We would give them a permanent cease-fire if they opened up the Strait of Hormuz and gave up their nukes.

They won’t do it.

And the reason they won’t do it is because they must terrorize their people. They must rush toward a nuclear weapon to preserve their tyrannical regime, and they must harass the countries around them to gain power. They have regional ambitions not restricted to Iran in their philosophy.

This notion that radical Islam is restricted to a small portion of the world, that if only we would leave them alone, they would leave us alone, ignores the entire history of radical Islam going back roughly 1300 years.

President Trump was asked if God supports the United States’ actions.

“I do, because God is good, and because God is good and God wants to see people taken care of, God doesn’t like what’s happening,” he said of the violence perpetrated by the Iranian regime against their own people. “I don’t like what’s happening. Everyone says I enjoy (waging war)? I don’t enjoy this.”

When the president says that he thinks that God supports the United States as we take out tyrannical dictators, when we kill Ayatollah Khomeini, a mass murderer, when we try to destroy the forward function of terror groups, he is correct.

We are a great and moral nation. Whether it’s going farther than Man has ever gone before or removing evil from the world’s midst, we are a unique force in world history.

And Americans should feel justly proud of that.