Lucas: Unconditional surrender from Iran isn’t enough

President Donald Trump ought to demand the unconditional surrender of the Democratic Party as he did of Iran.

He has already, metaphorically speaking, wiped out the Democrats as he symbolically did the nuclear bomb-bent bullies in Iran who’ve long had Israel in their crosshairs.

If you thought the Democratic Party and its leaders had had hit rock bottom defending illegal immigrants, including the violent criminals among them from deportation, think again.

Pretty soon Democrats will be protesting against the arrest and deportation of untold numbers of unvetted illegal immigrants from Iran who crossed into the country thanks to Joe Biden’s open borders.

National security experts have sounded the alarm on sleeper cells in America, and ICE agents arrested a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member with suspected ties to Hezbollah, an ex Iranian army sniper and a terror watchlist suspect during a sweep of Iranian illegal migrants in the US over the weekend, as the New York Post reported.

In all, 11 Iranian illegal migrants, many of them with criminal records, were taken into custody, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.

The worry is that sleeper cells will awake from dormancy in the wake of Trump’s decisive move against the Iranian regime. A cease-fire is in effect, for now. but you can count on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the mullahs to cheat no matter the agreement they make, as they have done in the past.

The extraordinary B-52 bunker-busting raid on the country’s nuclear infrastructure was a smashing success, but Democrats attacked Trump for eliminating — or at least setting back — Iran’s capacity to complete construction and delivery of nuclear bombs.

The government of Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, has been waging attacks on the United States for more than 40 years. Trump’s Operation Midnight Hammer struck a definitive blow.

The U.S. and the Allies in their defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II insisted on an unconditional surrender, which they got from both countries. This meant that the U.S. and the Allies set up the terms for peace.

In no other war since then, not the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the two Gulf Wars, or any other wars the U.S. has since been involved in has the president insisted on or even mentioned “unconditional surrender.”

Until now.

While we may not call for regime change and the ouster of Khamenei and the fanatics who have spread terror around the world, it is what will happen.

Unconditional surrenders means that the victor dictates who will run the defeated nation after a war. Otherwise, nothing changes.

In one fell swoop, though, Trump not only saved Israel and the Middle East from a nuclear Armageddon, but possibly Western Civilization as well. It was an event unlike any other in military history.

It was an extraordinary mission that caught the attention of the world, including China, which may have second thoughts now about invading Taiwan, and Russia, which is caught in a World War I-like stalemate in Ukraine.

And unlike the cowardly ambiguity and doubletalk toward Iran and its nuclear program in the past by Barack Obama, John Kerry, Joe Biden and Antony Blinken, Trump was clear as a bell.

“It’s very simple,” Trump said. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”

While it is true that other nations have nuclear weapon capabilities, Iran is the only country that has openly vowed to use a nuclear bomb on its enemies, Israel and the United States.

The hateful zealots in Iran have been promising death to both for almost 50 years and if allowed to do so, will continue for another 50.

Which is why the Khamenei and the rest must go.

If not, there will be no unconditional surrender and it will all be for naught.

Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One to depart Amsterdam Schiphol Airport after the NATO summit, taking place in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

 

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