Here is why it IS the United States’ war

Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens are among the wingnut Right who have invented a narrative for the war with Iran that borders on anti-Semitism, if not crossing the line. 

Their narrative? 

“This is Israel’s war. This is not the United States’ war,” said Carlson. “No one should have to die for a foreign nation,” said Kelly. 

Owens’ topped off her rant with a shopworn, false, and actually anti-Semitic accusation that Israel was behind 9/11. 

They are not alone in trying to turn the mash in the Mideast into a fight between Israel and Iran in which the U.S. (or the West) has no vested interest.

Since it’s hard to believe people with their platforms could be so ignorant, I conclude they are lying.

Why are they lying?

Politics? Audience share? Anti-Semitism? Who knows?

Before looking at proof that Iran hates and targets the United States, let’s agree the mullahs hate the Jewish state even more, and have repeatedly and sincerely threatened to extinguish the Jewish state. Israel takes the threats seriously. It should.

Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu would like nothing better than to see the Islamist terrorist-led state blown to oblivion. He has made no secret of that.

He would do it alone, if he could, but he can’t. So he wants U.S. help, and cover.

That’s what happened last year when the two nations cooperated in a massive air attack that crippled Iran’s nuclear facilities. 

But it is farce to believe that Israel “forced” the U.S.’ hand.

Or that Netanyahu “demanded” that President Donald J. Trump go to war against Iran.

Trump doesn’t take orders from Netanyahu — he gives them.

He flashes red lights, and green lights. The United States is Israel’s most powerful and important ally. It is also Israel’s most important source of arms, and support at the U.N. It is Israel’s closest friend.

A big brother, if you will. A big brother who does not take orders from a  little brother.

Or, in Iranian terms, the Great Satan (the U.S.) and the Little Satan (Israel). Even the mullahs recognize who’s the top dog.

Those Satanic terms have been used since 1979 when the Islamofascists took over the nation and launched massive Friday services marked by the twin chants of “Death to Israel!” and “Death to America!”

The mullahs took hostage the staff of the U.S. embassy for 666 days.

From that moment on, Iran has been a sworn enemy of the United States.

Does anyone not know that?

And from that moment on, the ayatollahs have done everything in their power to hurt the United States, and Americans. Their evil often has been carried out by  a world-wide network of terrorist groups attacking the U.S. and Western targets.

Even as he campaigned for President in 2015, Trump condemned the Iranian regime, as he did even before he was a candidate. That’s why, as President, he tore up the Barack Obama-brokered treaty with Iran. Acting on his own.

To alleviate the willful ignorance of the Carlsons, Kellys, and Owens’, here is a timeline of Iranian attacks, compiled in part by the non-partisan think tank Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, founded after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

April 1983

A suicide car bombing kills 63 people, including 17 Americans, at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. The Iran-backed terrorist group Islamic Jihad, a precursor and early branch of Hezbollah, claims responsibility.

October 1983

Operatives of the Iran-backed Hezbollah drive a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, killing 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel.

December 1983

Hezbollah operatives drive an explosives-filled dump truck through the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City. No Americans are harmed.

March 1984

Terrorists kidnap CIA station chief William Buckley in Beirut, subsequently torturing and ultimately killing him in 1985. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.

December 1984

Hezbollah terrorists hijack Kuwait Airways Flight 221 on its way from Kuwait to Pakistan and divert it to Tehran, killing two American officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

June 1985

Hezbollah terrorists hijack TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome and kill a U.S. Navy diver.

July 1989

Hezbollah operatives kill U.S. Marine Corps Col. William Higgins after kidnapping him the previous year while on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon.

April 1995

An explosives-laden van crashes into a bus near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip, killing one American and seven Israelis. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.

August 1995

A Hamas suicide bomber blows up a bus in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem, killing an American and three other passengers and wounding more than 100.

February 1996

A Hamas suicide bomber blows up a Jerusalem bus, killing three Americans and wounding three other Americans. A total of 26 people died in the attack.

March 1996

A suicide bomber blows up the Dizengoff shopping center in Tel Aviv, wounding two Americans. Twenty people die and 75 others are injured in the attack. Both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.

May 1996

Gunmen kill an American-Israeli dual citizen in the community of Beit El in the West Bank. Another U.S. citizen and three Israelis are wounded. No group claims responsibility, but Israel suspects Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

June 1996

A truck carrying 5,000 pounds of explosives blows up the Khobar Towers, a U.S. Air Force housing complex in the Saudi Arabian town of Khobar. Nineteen Americans die and some 500 people are injured. The Iran-backed Hezbollah Al Hijaz, a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia, is deemed responsible.

September 1997

Three Hamas suicide bombers blow themselves up at the Ben Yehuda shopping mall in Jerusalem, killing a U.S.-Israeli dual citizen and wounding seven other American citizens. Four other people die and nearly 200 are wounded in the attack.

August 1998

With the assistance of Hezbollah, al Qaeda suicide bombers almost simultaneously blow up the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans, and wounding thousands. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, al Qaeda developed “the tactical expertise for such attacks months earlier, when some of its operatives — top military committee members and several operatives who were involved with the Kenya cell among them — were sent to Hezbollah training camps in Lebanon.”

August 2001

A Hamas suicide bomber blows up the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem, killing a U.S.-Israeli dual citizen and two other Americans. A total of 15 people die in the attack.

January 2002

Gunmen affiliated with the Iran-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade kill a U.S.-Israel dual citizen and wound another individual in the West Bank community of Beit Sahur.

July 2002

A bomb planted by a Hamas terrorist kills five Americans at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, killing five American students, including an American-Israeli dual citizen and an American-French dual citizen. A total of nine people died in the attack.

June 2003

An American citizen, along with 16 other people, died when a Hamas terrorist blows himself up on a bus in Jerusalem.

October 2003

Terrorists from the Iran-backed Popular Resistance Committees kill three U.S. diplomatic personnel in a bombing in Gaza.

2003-2011

Iranian-backed militias kill at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq, according to the Pentagon. Iranian training and material support for Iraqi militias during the surge greatly increased the difficulty of U.S. forces to combat the insurgency and included some of the deadliest weapons used against American troops, including explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

August 2003

A Hamas suicide bomber blows up a bus in Jerusalem, killing five Americans and wounding one other American. A total of 24 people died in the attack.

August 2006

Hezbollah fighters kill American citizen Michael Levin, a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), during the Second Lebanon War. He is the only American to die in the conflict.

January 2007

Twelve men affiliated with the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) disguised themselves as U.S. soldiers, entered the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in the Iraqi city of Karbala, kill five U.S. soldiers, and wound another three. In 2019, the U.S. State Department issued a $15 million bounty for information on an IRGC Quds Force commander who planned the attack and other “assassinations of coalition forces in Iraq.”

July 2014

Hamas terrorists kill two Americans serving in the IDF during fighting between the terrorist group and Israel in Gaza as part of Operation Protective Edge.

October 2015

Hamas terrorists kill an American citizen and his wife, residents of the West Bank community of Neria, in their car in a drive-by shooting.

December 2019

Rockets fired by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia, kill an American security contractor and wound several U.S. service members and Iraqi personnel at the K1 military base in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

January 2020

A direct Iranian ballistic missile attack against the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq causes more than 100 U.S. troops to suffer traumatic brain injuries.

March 2020

The family of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran in 2007, announces that he likely died in an Iranian prison at an unknown date.

September 2020

U.S. intelligence reports indicate that Iran is weighing a plot to assassinate U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Lana Marks.

February 2021

A rocket fired by an Iran-backed militia at coalition forces in the Iraqi city of Erbil wounds a U.S. service member and four U.S. civilian contractors.

July 2021

Iranian-backed militias conduct at least three rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in 24 hours in Iraq and Syria, wounding two U.S. service members.

September 2022

An Iranian rocket attack kills an American citizen in Iraqi Kurdistan.

November 2022

A captain in Iran’s IRGC orchestrates the killing of an American citizen living in Baghdad who worked at an English language institute.

March 2023

An Iranian drone kills an American contractor and wounds five service members and another contractor when it strikes a coalition base near the Syrian city of Hasakah.

October 7, 2023

Hamas kills at least 48 Americans and kidnaps at least 12 Americans in a massacre of 1,200 people in southern Israel.

December 2023

A drone attack conducted by an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia against U.S. forces in Erbil wounds three American soldiers, including one critically injured with shrapnel.

January 2024

A drone launched by Kataib Hezbollah kills three U.S. soldiers at a U.S. military base in Jordan and wounded more than 40 other service members.

October 2024

Iran executes German-Iranian national and U.S. permanent resident Jamshid Sharmahd on fraudulent terrorism charges.

November 2024

A report released by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies indicates that Iran and its proxies have conducted more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East between October 17, 2023, and November 19, 2024, resulting in more than 180 wounded and three killed U.S. service members.

November 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice announces charges against an Iranian national and two American accomplices for plotting to assassinate President Trump.

March 2025

A U.S. jury convicts two agents of Iran for plotting to assassinate Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad in New York in 2022.

June 2025

At least three U.S. bases in Syria and two U.S. bases in Iraq are attacked with missiles or drones, likely by Iranian-backed militias.

Any questions about this being the United States’ war?