Broad + Liberty & Philly Daily ran my On Crime column today on Iran’s leaders acting like Monty Python’s Black Knight.
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Paul Davis: Iran’s leaders are like Monty Python’s Black Knight
I’ve covered murderers, carjackers, and child molesters, but they are nothing in comparison to the mass murdering Iranian war criminals who for more than 47 years have directly or indirectly killed scores of Americans as well as killed thousands of their own people who were protesting in the street against the government.
Iran has funded, trained and directed murderous terrorist proxy groups that have caused so much mayhem, misery and death in the Middle East and beyond. They needed to be stopped.
I support President Trump’s attack on Iran, which will prevent one of the most evil regimes in the world from acquiring a nuclear weapon – as well as having a bit of payback for murdering Americans for all those years.
Iran’s arrogant, fanatical and unrealistic bluster in peace negotiations with America after the U.S. and Israeli military virtually destroyed its military and industrial base reminds me of Monty Python’s classic Black Knight sketch.
The Black Knight is a clever sketch, which appears in the British comedy group’s 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As King Arthur, portrayed by Graham Chapman, is about to cross a bridge over a stream, a knight, portrayed by John Cleese, dressed in black with a full helmet stops the King and his troop from crossing the bridge.
“None shall
pass,” the Black Knight tells King Arthur.
The two men
draw their swords and fight. King Arthur defeats the Black Knight by cutting
off his left arm, but the proud knight refuses to accept defeat and says, “Tis
but a scratch.”
The King
then cuts off his right arm, and the Black Knight, armless, kicks the King. The
King then cuts off the Black Knight’s left leg and then his right leg, leaving
the Black Knight with only a torso and a helmeted head.
“All right,”
the Black Knight says to the King. “We’ll call it a draw.”
I’d like to see President Trump go all out and defeat the Iranian fanatical clerics and military, accepting only an unconditional surrender as we did with Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, rather than allow the Iranian leaders to prolong the conflict with delaying tactics.
Fox News senior
strategic analyst and retired U.S. Army General Jack Keane (seen in the above photo) believes that the
United States is on the cusp of returning to full-throttle combat operations in
Iran.
“They want to run this clock out, increase the political economic pressure on the president,” General Keane said on Fox. “And they just don’t care about the suffering of their people. What do they care about? They care about, one, the survival of the regime and themselves. That’s what this is all about. And if they get a negotiated deal, they think that they’ll get financing to help recover the regime. That is what their objective is here.”
General Jack Keane, in my view, is the most knowledgeable and experienced military analyst alive today. General Keane said that President Trump has exhibited a huge amount of patience since the ceasefire on April 8th.
General Keane predicts that there will be a combined operation with the United States and Israel going “full throttle,” all out, and no half measures. This attack will curtail Iran’s revenue sources, which will force an economic collapse of the regime.
“Without revenue, it’s hard to see how this regime can survive. So, we put it on a path. And I think at some point at the end of this thing, after we open the Straits of Hormuz and begin to get it secure, offer the IRGC leaders, you know, a free trip out to a place of their choice and see if we can work a deal, that kind of a deal with them, and make some positive changes in the regime,” General Keane said. “So yes, we are on the cusp of returning to full-throttle combat operations.”
Like Monty Python’s Black Knight, the Iranians are refusing to accept defeat out of arrogance and fanatical devotion, but America’s next all out military assault should definitely end the war, and hopefully, send the Iranian leadership – what is left of them – scurrying off to exile in Russia.
Paul Davis’s On Crime column appears here each week. He is also a contributor to Broad + Liberty and Counterterrorism magazine. He can be reached via pauldavisoncrime.com.
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