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Iran is in fact the leading impediment to peace

March 2, 2026

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL

President Donald Trump asked the members of Congress, point blank, to stand up if they believe their first priority is the American citizen or immigrants. He might as well as asked them if they support the people of Iran or its brutal dictators.

He would have got the same answer.

I don’t know of anyone who wants a war in the Middle East. However, that is not the right question.

The right question is, how could anyone withstand terrorist attacks from Iran once it has nuclear capabilities?

For the fact of the matter is that Iran has been attacking Americans, Israelis, and many other countries for some 40 years in its capacity as the leading sponsor of terrorism around the world and against its own people.

Iran is in fact the leading impediment to peace in the Middle East and elsewhere.

On the morning of Oct. 23, 1983, a dump truck packed with an estimated 12,000 pounds of explosives crashed through the front gates of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. The detonation ripped the four-story building from its foundation, and the barracks imploded in a matter of seconds.

The 241 marines and sailors killed in the explosion represented the largest loss of life in a single day for the Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.

James (Jim) Surch grew up in Lompoc, where he was a standout three sport athlete at Lompoc High School. As a result of his accomplishments, he was approached by more than 30 universities from across the nation.  He ended up an officer after having graduated from the Naval Academy.

He died in the Beirut bombing, and I am glad that these many years later justice has been served for him and the hundreds of thousands of Iranians who have been brutalized by the now-deceased brutal terrorist dictators.

Andy Caldwell is the executive director of COLAB in Santa Barbara County and host of The Andy Caldwell Radio Show, weekdays from 3-5 p.m. on  FM 98.5, FM 99.5, AM 1240, AM 1290 and FM 96.9.

 


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Why go to war? Epstein files.


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Exactly! Show us all, Great Guy, all the evidence that indicts Trump! You seem to know more about the files than the FBI and CIA combined. So, out with it. Photo’s, video’s, Emails, Tik Tok’s, Spotify playlists, letters written in secret Lolita Island code.


oooOOoohhhh. You really have nothing, right? Nothing at all, in the millions of pages that have less than zero proof, facts, reality, or evidence on Trump? So, you just spout off BS, just so you can seem like, I don’t know, smart or something?


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There is plenty of evidence against Trump. MAGA just choose not to acknowledge the fact that he is a convicted felon who is also convicted of sexual assault. That’s your president.

Today’s release of information only shows trumps accusations of raping kids. Why do you think it’s been covered up by this administration?

My guess Israel and the Saudis have the tapes and proof. And when the proof comes out, how will maga twist themselves to accept it?


Trump knows they don’t like chomos in prison.


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Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the US. We are in this war in the service of Israel. Netanyahu has been trying to get the US into a war with Iran for over 30 years. Three presidents resisted this, knowing that it is not in our national interest to get involved in another Mid-east quagmire. Netanyahu, an indicted war criminal charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, was able to dupe Trump into a war that the US had no rational reason to start.

So now, once again, we expend national treasure and blood for another Mid-East war. Allied with Israel, we are spreading death and destruction across the Middle East.


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We did not pose an imminent threat to Iran yet they killed American and Isreli service men and women whenever they pleased for 30 years. They chant death to Isreal and America and follow through with death to Americans and Israelis. What’s your problem? Iran spreads death and destruction across the Middle East. You talk shit while American heros get the job done. Carter should have gotten the job done. It took Reagon to stop Iran in the 70s. Obama tried to pay them off. Retard Biden “d-d-d don’t” really helped the world.


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Muslim countries that support the U.S. strikes on Iran:

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Turkey.


Muslim countries that do not support the U.S. strikes on Iran:

France, Belgium, United Kingdom.


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Ok, Andy, but what we should really be talking about is that big, beautiful ballroom that Mr. Trump is building. That’s the real priority, never mind that six U.S. servicemen are dead so far.


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At least you finally came to your senses and called it a “big beautiful ball room”, which its going to be!!!!


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It will be a nice place for Trump and his billionaire friends and donors to dine and dance


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Keep talking Adam, please, please, please. You are a gift to irrationality. Every time you open your truth challenged mouth more join our camp. Don’t stop.


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This is a complete atrocity. There was no imminent threat at all, and to get us involved in thus ridiculous conflict should be grounds for treason. The fact that you continue to goosestep behind this orange fool is beyond belief.


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Plenty of imminent threats to American soldiers across the region. But you don’t care unless your house is a target. Might be soon. We will see who Biden let in our country.


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That must be why the Iranian people in America and abroad were celebrating America and the Trump administration decision to strike Iran’s evil leadership. I suppose you could just be saying this because it was a republican that made the decision instead of a democrat. This very well could be the first American president that both the Jewish people and the Muslim people celebrated.


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I’m American and Jewish and I’m not celebrating.


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What were your thoughts when Obama dropped thousands of bombs throughout the middle east?


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That’s what most people said about Germany in the 1930’s


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Well said Andy!!! Every American should be happy for the elimination of this regime.


How any American on the left or right could even attempt to condemn this operation to decapitate the Iranian Ayatollah and his terrorist regime, making the middle east and the world a safer place, is unbelievable, un-American, and is flat out stupidity in its purest form.


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China has the most to loose. Iran oil, Venezuelan refineries, Cuban whatever, Russian oil- all gone! No drones from Iran to Russia. Brilliant.


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It’s all part of the 4D chess our REAL AMERICAN POTUS planned.


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Exactly right, Andy.


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Admittedly, I am a little confused by process vs the many decades of atrocities in Iran, that said, if Adolf Hitter was active today, thankfully there are leaders like Donald Trump who won’t play lethal games and will extinguish those horrific people to save lives while the fence setters discuss their level of participation. Also we do not want to discuss the American companies that were suppliers to Hitler.


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