Trump's War
'"Know Your Enemy". The Real One.
Our self-avowed “Peace President” has taken us to war. What now?
Many who voted for him are upset. They forget the reality of the world, I’m afraid - that Islam has been warring against America for nearly 50 years, AND that Muslims are preparing to do Jihad, right here in our homeland.
The Islamists of Iran have been at war - against America AND all other nations who will not accept Sharia dominance - for decades. Below is a list from the Foundation Defending Democracy as to how and when the Muslim east has attacked the “non-believers” in the last 47 years. I have added the information as to the occupant of our White House when each attack occurred.
I remember each one of these incidents, and how little our country did about them.
Islam vs America, 1979 - Present, (from FDD)
April 1983 (Reagan): A suicide car bombing kills 63 people, including 17 Americans, at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. The Iran-backed terrorist group Islamic Jihad, a precursor and early branch of Hezbollah (not to be confused with Palestinian Islamic Jihad), claims responsibility.
October 1983 (Reagan): Operatives of the Iran-backed Hezbollah drive a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, killing 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel.
December 1983 (Reagan): Hezbollah operatives drive an explosives-filled dump truck through the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City. No Americans are harmed.
March 1984 (Reagan) : Terrorists kidnap CIA station chief William Buckley in Beirut, subsequently torturing and ultimately killing him in 1985. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.
December 1984 (Reagan): Hezbollah terrorists hijack Kuwait Airways Flight 221 on its way from Kuwait to Pakistan and divert it to Tehran, killing two American officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
June 1985 (Reagan) : Hezbollah terrorists hijack TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome and kill a U.S. Navy diver.
July 1989 (Reagan) : Hezbollah operatives kill U.S. Marine Corps Col. William Higgins after kidnapping him the previous year while on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon.
April 1995 (Clinton): An explosives-laden van crashes into a bus near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip, killing one American and seven Israelis. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.
August 1995 (Clinton): A Hamas suicide bomber blows up a bus in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem, killing an American and three other passengers and wounding more than 100.
February 1996 (Clinton) : A Hamas suicide bomber blows up a Jerusalem bus, killing three Americans and wounding three other Americans. A total of 26 people die in the attack.
March 1996 (Clinton) : A suicide bomber blows up the Dizengoff shopping center in Tel Aviv, wounding two Americans. Twenty people die and 75 others are injured in the attack. Both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
May 1996 (Clinton) : Gunmen kill an American-Israeli dual citizen in the community of Beit El in the West Bank. Another U.S. citizen and three Israelis are wounded. No group claims responsibility, but Israel suspects Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
June 1996 (Clinton): A truck carrying 5,000 pounds of explosives blows up the Khobar Towers, a U.S. Air Force housing complex in the Saudi Arabian town of Khobar. Nineteen Americans die and some 500 people are injured. The Iran-backed Hezbollah Al Hijaz, a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia, is deemed responsible.
September 1997 (Clinton) : Three Hamas suicide bombers blow themselves up at the Ben Yehuda shopping mall in Jerusalem, killing a U.S.-Israeli dual citizen and wounding seven other American citizens. Four other people die and nearly 200 are wounded in the attack.
August 1998 (Clinton) : With the assistance of Hezbollah, al Qaeda suicide bombers almost simultaneously blow up the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans, and wounding thousands. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, al Qaeda developed “the tactical expertise for such attacks months earlier, when some of its operatives — top military committee members and several operatives who were involved with the Kenya cell among them — were sent to Hezbollah training camps in Lebanon.”
August 2001 (GW Bush)) : A Hamas suicide bomber blows up the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem, killing a U.S.-Israeli dual citizen and two other Americans. A total of 15 people die in the attack.
September 11, 2001 ( GW Bush) While the 9/11 Commission Report concludes that Iran had no foreknowledge of al Qaeda’s attacks on the World Trade Center, the report indicates that Tehran facilitated the travel of some of the terrorists. “In sum,” the report notes, “there is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11, and that some of these were future 9/11 hijackers.”
January 2002 (GW Bush): Gunmen affiliated with the Iran-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade kill a U.S.-Israel dual citizen and wound another individual in the West Bank community of Beit Sahur.
July 2002 (GW Bush) : A bomb planted by a Hamas terrorist kills five Americans at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, killing five American students, including an American-Israeli dual citizen and an American-French dual citizen. A total of nine people died in the attack.
June 2003 (GW Bush) : An American citizen, along with 16 other people, died when a Hamas terrorist blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem.
October 2003 (GW Bush): Terrorists from the Iran-backed Popular Resistance Committees kill three U.S. diplomatic personnel in a bombing in Gaza.
2003-2011 GW Bush- Obama) : Iranian-backed militias kill at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq, according to the Pentagon. Iranian training and material support for Iraqi militias during the surge greatly increased the difficulty of U.S. forces to combat the insurgency and included some of the deadliest weapons used against American troops, including explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
August 2003 (Obama): A Hamas suicide bomber blows up a bus in Jerusalem, killing five Americans and wounding one other American. A total of 24 people died in the attack.
August 2006: Hezbollah fighters kill American citizen Michael Levin, a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), during the Second Lebanon War. He is the only American to die in the conflict.
January 2007 (Obama): Twelve men affiliated with the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) disguised themselves as U.S. soldiers, entered the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in the Iraqi city of Karbala, killed five U.S. soldiers, and wounded another three. In 2019, the U.S. State Department issued a $15 million bounty for information on an IRGC Quds Force commander who planned the attack and other “assassinations of coalition forces in Iraq.”
2012 WAS BENGHZAI, AND THE MURDER OF OUR AMBASSADOR CHRIS STEVENS. THIS INCIDENT CONSISTED OF ATTACKS ON OUR DIPLOMATIC COMPOUND AND OUR CIA ANNEX. BARRACK OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT, AND, HILLARY CLINTON, HIS SEC.OF STATE. BOTH KNEW AHEAD OF TIME, THAT THE ATTACK WAS GOING TO OCCUR, AND COULD HAVE SENT REINFORCEMENTS, YET THEY DID NOT. THE CONSULATE STAFF FOUGHT OFF THE ATTACKERS WITHOUT HELP, FOR AS LONG AS THEY COULD. FOUR AMERICANS WERE KILLED.
*THIS WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE LIST FROM THE FDD. I added it, with details from several sources. I am very interested in WHY Behghazi was omitted.
July 2014 (Obama): Hamas terrorists kill two Americans serving in the IDF during fighting between the terrorist group and Israel in Gaza as part of Operation Protective Edge.
October 2015 (Obama): Hamas terrorists kill an American citizen and his wife, residents of the West Bank community of Neria, in their car in a drive-by shooting.
December 2019 (Trump45): Rockets fired by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia, kills an American security contractor and wounds several U.S. service members and Iraqi personnel at the K1 military base in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
January 2020 (Trump45): A direct Iranian ballistic missile attack against the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq causes more than 100 U.S. troops to suffer traumatic brain injuries.
March 2020 (Biden/Obama): The family of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran in 2007, announces that he likely died in an Iranian prison at an unknown date.
September 2020 (Biden/Obama): U.S. intelligence reports indicate that Iran is weighing a plot to assassinate U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Lana Marks.
February 2021 (Biden/Obama): An rocket fired by an Iran-backed militia at coalition forces in the Iraqi city of Erbil wounds a U.S. service member and four U.S. civilian contractors.
July 2021 (Biden/Obama): Iranian-backed militias conduct at least three rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in 24 hours in Iraq and Syria, wounding two U.S. service members.
September 2022 (Biden/Obama): An Iranian rocket attack kills an American citizen in Iraqi Kurdistan.
November 2022 (Biden/Obama): A captain in Iran’s IRGC orchestrates the killing of an American citizen living in Baghdad who worked at an English language institute.
March 2023 (Biden/Obama) : An Iranian drone kills an American contractor and wounds five service members and another contractor when it strikes a coalition base near the Syrian city of Hasakah.
October 7, 2023 (Biden/Obama): Hamas kills at least 48 Americans and kidnaps at least 12 Americans in a massacre of 1,200 people in southern Israel.
December 2023 (Biden/Obama) : A drone attack conducted by an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia against U.S. forces in Erbil wounds three American soldiers, including one critically injured with shrapnel to the head that placed him in a coma.
January 2024 (Biden/Obama): A drone launched by Kataib Hezbollah kills three U.S. soldiers at a U.S. military base in Jordan and wounded more than 40 other service members.
October 2024 (Biden/Obama): Iran executes German-Iranian national and U.S. permanent resident Jamshid Sharmahd on fraudulent terrorism charges.
November 2024: A report released by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies indicates that Iran and its proxies have conducted more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East between October 17, 2023, and November 19, 2024, resulting in more than 180 wounded and three killed U.S. service members.
November 2024 (Biden/Obama): The U.S. Department of Justice announces charges against an Iranian national and two American accomplices for plotting to assassinate President Trump.
March 2025 (Trump47) : A U.S. jury convicts two agents of Iran for plotting to assassinate Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad in New York in 2022.
June 2025 (Trump47): At least three U.S. bases in Syria and two U.S. bases in Iraq are attacked with missiles or drones, likely by Iranian-backed militias.
So, throughout the terms of seven US Presidents, spanning 47 years, Iran has been allowed to have its way with us. Barack Obama even paid them…he said for a back debt. I call it appeasement. I think he feared then; knew what they could do, and wanted to keep his administration clean. Of course, it did not work.
Donald Trump KNEW of this history before he chose war. In his second term, he has settled conflicts around the world. Everyone lauded his efforts then.
Now, suddenly, many are critical of President Trump. What, I wonder, would be their reaction if/when Islamic Jihad is unleashed within our borders? I think we already know. “Why didn’t he to something, people would shriek! Personally, I think that Donald Trump is trying to avoid being the first President, after Abe Lincoln, to have foreign war occur on our own soil. He really does want peace.
I do know some Christian conservatives who are against war of any kind, at any time and I understand; I ask them to hold their powder for now.
Then, there are the media and podcasters. One minute supportive; the next, not. I won’t mention their names, because more publicity is exactly what they crave.
Of course, there are those who ARE American citizens who hate their own country - a luxury, I might remind them - a freedom of expression - that they would NOT have under Communism, which they seem to prefer. Several have moved to other countries as protest against Trump; they are finding it to be less wonderful than they’d thought. “LOL” as they say.
At this time, we must realize that the warnings about Islamist “sleeper cells” in America are real. Encrypted communications between Iran and those embedded in America and elsewhere have been found and de-coded. Even ABC and NBC reported it.
For all the Trump-haters, new and old, who mock and deny this, I must ask, “What does it cost you to keep eyes wide open? After all, those who bury their heads in the sand, leave their backsides out to be kicked. Ostriches are simply watching over their eggs when they do that…not ignoring the world.
A statement from the NYC bomb-thrower at the Gracie Mansion tells us a lot: “This isn’t a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet,” the perpetrator, Balat, said in a recorded moment, according to a prosecution complaint filed in the Southern District of New York.
“We take action! We take action!”
Momdani blamed the Gracie Mansion incident on “white supremacy”. Huh?
Action was taken at an Austin TX nightclub, March 2, 2026: 3 killed, 15 injured by gunman wearing pro-Islam shirt and writing on X that, “The Islamic Revolution is eternal and there’s not a damned thing you can do about it.” Don’t forget the Florida nightclub slaughter, and the attacks on innocent Americans on subways and in schools.
PLEASE, remember the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, which killed 3 and maimed over 250. Even Wikipedia calls it an Islamist terrorist attack. THAT, was 13 years ago. Trump’s actions had nothing to do with it.
Islam intends to rule the world, and they will employ both lying and violence on their mission. KNOW THAT. Most of you already do, but you’re the good people who care enough to be informed.
Look at the recent MN incidents. Look at MN Gov. Walz, MN AG Ellison, and their Congressional representatives. They ALL knew about the massive fraud, and are ALL lying.
This is Taqiyya or lying, the Islamic partner crime to violence, . . . .fraud which has stolen $20+ BILLION from the American taxpayers, with fake child care centers, and all the rest.
In addition, there are now KNOWN to be 18.000+ middle easterners who have sneaked into America to do violence in small teams of as few as 2-5 people. Terror cells. This is different than the long-embedded crimes in Walz nation and elsewhere. ABC News reported this last week. Our federal government sent alerts to law enforcement agencies nationwide regarding the potential activation of these Iranian sleeper cells, both here and abroad.
I believe that Trump may well have known this, and that this intercepted communique could have prompted the timing of this “Trump War”.
Frankly, I believe they are here, have been for years, and now plan to turn up the violence. It is difficult to define where and when, as LYING before activating is part of their holy word.
We’re back to “see something, say something.” And I say this in deadly earnest.
We’ve had to live with our food supplies being tainted and/or eradicated; now, perhaps, our electricity and water, shopping malls and schools will come under siege.
In closing, I ask you to please remember: THESE FOREIGN TERRORISTS GROUPS ENTERED THE US TO DO US HARM BEFORE WE ENGAGED IRAN IN THIS CURRENT CONFLICT. Re-read the list above. Donald Trump was not the cause of any of it.
Trump47 is an unusual phenomenon in politics, because he is NOT a politician. This drives BOTH sides of our Congressional aisle, along with our foreign “friends” and adversaries, crazy.
But, that’s how it goes in a Constitutional Republic. We elect someone to make these kinds of decisions. With our vote, goes a large measure of trust. Like it or not, the occupant of the White House and his team know more about things than we ever will, as it should be. Leave it up to our do-nothing Congresses, and the world would burn before they got off their podiums to notice.
Then, as is our right AND our obligation in a free country, we question those we elect. Once those executive decisions are made, however, it is our responsibility to stand behind them, even if the occupant of 1600 is not the one we picked. Don’t like what a certain administration served up?? VOTE THEM OUT at the first opportunity. This is THE reason why our vote is so crucial.
This is why election fraud is the one big gun that can destroy our freedom, once and for all. Expressing our support or dissent must go through a ballot box which we can trust - AND AUDIT.
This is why assuring that only documented citizens vote is fundamental. Feel free to laugh in the face of those who whine that this would disenfranchise millions. Those same millions have been able to obtain ID for dozens of other requirements. They can also prove their residency and citizenship to vote. If they care enough to; at any given election, there are always 20%+ who don’t care to. This, too, is their right as free people.
Our vote, when cast by ONLY US citizens who have registered that proof, is the way that our founding documents have given us to bring about change, OR signal our approval of the candidates. It is fundamental to our Republic that only citizens vote, yet the number of states that choose to ignore that is nauseating. Some say it’s too expensive, or time-consuming, but they are not telling the truth. Paper ballots, hand-counted have been proven to be both cheaper and more accurate.
Florida, dishonestly enough, passed their version of the SAVE ACT recently, but it does not go into effect until after the 2026 midterms! DeSantis still has eyes on DC. I am tired of reading the praise for this, their next scam. Each state who is against the SAVE Act, has their own reasons, all of which boil down to supporting election fraud for their own ends.
Securing our elections is securing our freedom. Remind your legislators of that every few hours until the vote in the Senate. Right now, we need to work on this instead of going off on Donald Trump.
We have to work to keep our freedom, right here and right now. Lose these midterms to fraud, and our duly elected President will be indicted before the next week passes. As slow as Congress has moved to support Trump, they will be equally swift to get rid of him. And WE, will have lost any chance to get our freedom back.
“Off the couch and out the door! We have a country to save.” I’ve said this over and over, for more than a decade. I’ve never meant it more than I do right now.
Two and a half centuries of freedom cannot be allowed to die at the hands of those who operate with hatred and envy.
It doesn’t take a war to kill a country.
Blessings,
Kat



T Y Ms. Meow,
For clarification on the facts of this 47 year war. NOW i see why Trump has undertaken ,with his usual classic resolve,what no other president would. No more 'business as usual'. I have been holding my breath since the war on Iran began. I hope our intel delivered to Trump what is needed for us to overcome that Islamic serpent - to bite thru the spine.
Agreed that most terrorist attacks worldwide are organized by Muslim extremists. Yes, they are, in their nature, aimed against our (Western) culture and values. But I do not think that the US war against Iran is aiming at the right enemy.
The USA has positioned themselves as enemy of Iran and ally of Saudi Arabia - and this I see as a problem. Indeed, Iran-backed groups have executed a number of terrorist attacks, but the more comprehensive picture is provided by the Global Terrorist Database from University of Maryland (that anyone can download). The database shows that terrorist groups linked today or in the past to the Saudis are actually no less deadly than Iran-sponsored ones. They've executed more attacks and killed more people. Talibans had support of Saudis, ISIS was related to them and Al Quaeda was too, alongside many other smaller groups. The list attacks by Hamas and Hesbollah, which you quote is correct, but the bigger picture is important, too.
To this I could add my private perspective (certainly not comprehensive). I have been to a number of the Gulf states and also Iran. I find the Iranian society the most Westernized, most educated and the least radicalized of all Middle Eastern (Muslim) states I've seen. Blow I've put together some recollection of what I heard on the street from people in Tehran, compared to Doha, Abu Dhabi and Cairo. For instance, in Tehran I did not find much hatred towards Israel - while I found it very common in Egypt, Quatar, Abu Dhabi and even Kuala Lumpur where large part of population is Muslim.
I agree the Muslim terrorists must be fought. But I am not convinced that attacking Iran while continually sending zillions of petrodollars to Saudi Arabia will help fight terror. Do not forget that Osama bin Laden was Saudi, not Iranian. Link to my story below.
https://nomadicmind.substack.com/p/no-taboos-in-tehran