Trump checks Iran off presidential punch list previous leaders avoided
Tehran's terrorist network and missile threats finally draw U.S. force
COMMENTARY
By Michael McKenna - Wednesday, March 4, 2026
OPINION:
The Trump administration has given a lot of scattershot and ad hoc reasons for attacking Iran.
Iran has ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States. It was going to launch first. The Israelis were going to launch first. We want the Iranian people to rise; we are not seeking regime change. My personal favorite: They were within a week of having weapons-grade uranium.
We heard that same story 20 years ago and as recently as eight months ago, when we were told by the president: “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”
We have been offered all the reasons available except for the real one, which is that Iran is a neighborhood bully that has been asking for a beating for almost 50 years, and it finally ran across an American president willing to give it one.
The reality is that President Trump’s second term is becoming characterized as the moment to knock out the punch list of issues and nations that other presidents have either made worse or pretended didn’t exist. Illegal immigration. Drug trafficking. The creeping craziness of the cultural left. The default anti-Americanism of international organizations. Venezuela. Cuba. Now Iran.
If you’re Mexico, now is a good time to get worried.
It’s also a good time to get worried if you’re part of Beijing’s genocide and slavery team. Twice in the past eight months, China’s air defense systems have turned out to be lemons that fail in actual combat (at least against Americans). “Fail” is probably too generous; the systems didn’t really fail so much as they didn’t exist.
The last group of people that might want to consider fretting are the professional fretters in the Democratic Party. Is this attack on Iran an unalloyed good idea? Probably not. It seems likely we’re going to run into some bumps down the road, but we won’t really know for a while.
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