Negotiating With Iran is a Humiliation Ritual
You can’t negotiate with Islamic terrorists. All you can do is be taken hostage by them.
Negotiating with Islamic terrorists in general is a humiliation ritual. The moment you agree, you’ve lost face, shown weakness and it is now their mandate to humiliate you as much possible in order to extract maximum advantage while failing to keep any promises that they make.
Our leaders still haven’t learned this most basic fact from history. Including American history. (In two recent articles, “The Truth About the First Muslim Country to Recognize America”and “America Has Been Fighting Islamic Attacks for 242 Years”, I discuss how Adams and Jefferson learned this the hard way, trying to make treaties with Muslims in Algiers and Morocco, only to have them demand tribute and attack us anyway.)
So Iran is now doing exactly what I and anyone who knows anything about Islam and geopolitics predicted it would do, closing and opening the strait and demanding more. Currently Iran is demanding that the United States stop Israel from fighting back against Hezbollah attacks in Lebanon.
Assuming that J.D. Vance secures a blank check for Iran’s terrorists in Lebanon, there will be more demands, more closures and the humiliation rituals will go on until we wake up and stop jumping every time the terrorists shout… or until Iran’s ‘Death to America’ motto has been achieved.
You can’t negotiate with Islamic terrorists. All you can do is be taken hostage by them. Choosing to negotiate with them is choosing to be taken hostage. The moment we stop negotiating, the hostage crisis ends.
It's rationally impossible to negotiate with any organization that considers your death is a prerequisite to any successful negotiation.
Epic failure on the Trump DoD to not destroy the Iranian command and control systems that can "allow" safe passage of tankers thru the Strait of Hormuz!!!
The US should have immediately seized the Kharg island oil terminal and adjacent Iranian islands with the US Marine Corps MEU that should have been in the area embarked onboard ships... a simultaneously launched attack with ground forces should have immediately coincided to secure the entire region around the Strait by our 82 Airborne and other fast deployment units... during all this, any Iranian ships should be destroyed to prevent further mine deployment in the waters...
another ground assault from the northern area of Iran by the willing and capable Kurds would have forced the Iranian regime to use ground forces and assets to fight against such, thus facilitating our efforts to secure the entire Strait of Hormuz and affecting regime change...
this would have resulted in the most strategic position of the US to ensure ship travel thru the Persian Gulf region while pressuring Iran 🇮🇷 to desirable terms for cessation of the war...