Feral Woman

I’ve been watching the debate surrounding the war in Iran, and there’s something I want to say from the perspective of someone whose family has already paid an unimaginable price for the IRGC’s actions. President Trump has said repeatedly that if he had it to do over again, he would. I believe him. He’s privy to intelligence the rest of us will never see, and frankly, probably wouldn’t want to. Nightmares aren’t fun. I know firsthand what the IRGC is capable of, as do thousands upon thousands of GWOT service members and their families. I’m not sure there’s any way to make the average civilian understand what we know. Maybe I’m just screaming into the abyss. But to those insisting this war should never have happened, I have three children who have spent nearly 20 years without their father who would beg to differ. Sometimes leadership requires making decisions that carry enormous consequences. Decisions previous administrations were content to leave for someone else. Kicking the can down the road doesn’t make the threat disappear. It simply leaves another generation to deal with it. President Trump, Secretary of State Rubio, and Secretary of War Hegseth were willing to make that difficult decision. And whatever history ultimately writes about this operation in Iran, my family will always be grateful that they were willing to confront the threat rather than leave it for someone else.