Why don’t we ever finish the job we started in Iran?

The 47 year-long conflict with Iran has, in some ways, reduced us to the nagging child sitting in the back seat of the car who keeps asking, “Are we there yet, are we there yet?”

This time, it felt as if we were just about to arrive at the end of our long journey.  We could sense the closeness, as if any moment we would be able to finally say those confirming words, “We’re here.” But, once again, we stopped short of the final destination. 

It seems perplexing, because even Trump’s detractors are willing to admit that Iran is an evil regime which has terrorized its people, subjecting them to the tyranny of a fanatical dictator who could lay his head down at night after ordering the cold-blood murder of thousands of his citizens.

Although some may argue that Iran did not pose an immediate threat, since they had not completed their goal of obtaining nuclear weapons, even the most cynical would agree that once they did, they would not hesitate to use them on their most hated enemy – America, the great Satan.

Not only that, but it’s impossible to ignore the Islamization of Europe, America and Australia. The undeniable fact bears out that Muslim migrants deliberately chose not to integrate into the culture of the countries to which they moved – not by dress, customs, language acquisition, patriotic fervor or in any other way.

The objective was to infiltrate the Western way of life, overpower it and then conquer, all for the purpose of world domination and forced conversion. Anyone who does not believe that either has been frozen in time for the last 40 years or is just incapable of clear deduction!

Here’s what we know: 

Iran has been ruled by one lunatic ayatollah after the other. They have forced women into a cruel subjection, where violence against them has been common place, said to be the highest in all the world. 

The heavy presence of a “Moral Police” has strictly enforced everything from proper wearing of the hijab to forced marriage. Domestic violence is not a criminal offense and divorce is completely forbidden. Women are nothing short of property and can be raped, beaten and executed for the slightest infractions.

The Western way of life, which offers freedom of speech, religion and choice of every kind, is seen, by them, as a perversion and an evil which must be eradicated in order to please their god, Allah. 

The type of radical Shia Islam, practiced in Iran is vying for the top spot, unwilling to share the space of religion with any other. Consequently, in order to get there, it must do away with all competing faiths and creeds. How? Only one way. Go nuclear!

So, it comes down to a maniacal regime that wants full control of the lives of every human being. If they don’t get it, they will eliminate whoever gets in their way.  

Can everyone, then, agree that such an unstoppable foe, as this, should be wiped out and completely destroyed, lest they do that to each one of us first?

It seems so easy, so logical, but here is the problem. A few thousand years have passed since God Almighty inspired the writers of the scriptures to utterly kill their enemies. Phrases such as, “destroy all the enemy has and do not spare him, but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey,” are viewed as barbaric and unacceptable in the 21st century.  

But there was a good reason that God said to “utterly destroy them, make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.” Deut. 7:2 Because God knew that it was a choice between them or His people. They could not co-exist together in peace. The darkness was fixated on extinguishing the light.  

But as society grew more sophisticated and cultured, the accepted norm was to strive to make peace, even with the monsters who would lay in wait for the opportune moment to kill the innocent.

Not much has changed. Yes, we are the enlightened, educated and cultured species – the product of thousands of years of enhanced development, but what we seem to be lacking is the survival instinct which was deposited into each one of us for the purpose of warning that impending danger was closing in.

So our struggle has become one which boils down to whether our refined and cultivated society will allow itself to take the advice of our Creator and eliminate the forces of evil that would not spend one moment of deliberation when it comes to killing us. Or do we capitulate to the “acceptable societal norms” of today, opting for a more genteel way of dealing with a barbaric, bloodthirsty enemy, by entering into an agreement which, in advance, we already know they will not honor?

Will we ensure that mankind lives freely, as God intended, or will we assist in our own demise? Because that’s exactly what it comes down to. Trump has come closest to pulling the trigger, but even he has chosen the path of diplomacy, which is nothing more than the purchasing of extra time which can only benefit the enemy who gets to live another day.

One of the byproducts of free will, given to us by our Maker, is that we are never forced or coerced to do something that goes against our own desires. The problem is that our choices are not always the best for us, which is why God instructed us to listen to Him.  

Not having done so, resulted in being exiled from our land, suffering at the hands of our enemies and not arriving at our destination for thousands of years. In short, wandering through the desert seems to be what happens to us when we think we know better.

America and the Western world have chosen the same lane, and will greatly pay for taking the advice of modern thinking rather than what has been offered to us in the pages of the scriptures.

In addition to never attaining peace, we will continue to lose innocent people, because we made the fatal choice of trying to co-exist with demons. Isn’t it time that we heed God’s instruction and finish the job we started?