The Difference Two Letters in an American Leader Make…

by Gerald A. Honigman

Harry S. Truman holding the Chicago Daily Tribune with the erroneous headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman", at Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 4, 1948, after winning the 1948 United States presidential election.  Photo by Byron H. Rollins - "A presidential election history lesson: Americans often waited days or weeks for the outcome", The Washington Post, November 4, 2020.  Originally distributed by the Associated Press and published in numerous newspapers on November 5, 1948., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=121758373Harry S. Truman holding the Chicago Daily Tribune with the erroneous headline, “Dewey Defeats Truman”, at Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 4, 1948, after winning the 1948 United States presidential election. Photo by Byron H. Rollins – Originally distributed by the Associated Press and published in numerous newspapers on November 5, 1948., Public Domain, Wikipedia

https://nypost.com/2026/07/06/world-news/iran-fires-missiles-at-commercial-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz/

The latest news above showcasing the surviving Iranian mullahs’s bravado is beyond depressing…

It illustrates the difference which exists regarding à true wartime leader, President Harry S. Truman, who had no personal business interests interfering with his determination to defeat genocidal Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and President Donald J. Trump, who repeatedly talked the talk of defeating Nazi Germany’s genocidal counterparts in the terrorist regime of Arabized and Islamized mullahs of the Islamic (non-) “Republic” and their Waffen SS Stormtrooper-like IRGC and homicidal Basij militia…but wound up failing miserably in walking the walk…

https://tinyurl.com/553x2w6u

Instead of total victory and unconditional surrender of this Nazi-like genocidal regime of supremacist kafir infidel-hating Arabized Aryan mullahs that has funded and armed proxies determined to obliterate Israel and all Jews everywhere, which Trump earlier claimed he was going to achieve, the mullahs have out-witted him, one way or another, and have survived to continue to slaughter and/or terrorize:

International shipping, Iran’s masses loyal more to their ancient, several millennia old pre-Arab Islamic conquest glorious history than to the megalomaniacal maniacs ruling them who despise Iran’s pre-Islamic past, and who are dead set on world conquest, creating instability to usher in the arrival of their 12th “Hidden Imam,” the Mahdi, who’ll lead the final fight for Shi’a Islamic world domination, and achieve the total obliteration of both Israel and America—the “Little” and “Big” Satans.

Trump’s “Deal” will once again free up billions of dollars in oil revenues, allowing the mullahs to continue to finance Hamas, Hizbullah, the Houthis, and so forth while continuing to produce or purchase powerful drones, ballistic and ICBMs, and so forth.

More troublesome news like what’s in that above link inevitably lies ahead because Trump caved in for short term gain in midterm elections and quick cheaper gasoline prices, and future lucrative business deals for his and his fellow billionaire buddies like Steve Witkoff, instead of staying the course to achieve the goals he blabbed he wanted to achieve.

The result of The Donald’s failure will mean that the masses of Iranian people will likely never know democracy and freedom as the German and Japanese people now have because another, truly great American wartime leader, also facing increasing pressure to end WWII as quickly as possible, didn’t buckle, and instead followed through with whatever was necessary to completely defeat the Nazi regime, destroy as much of its military support system as possible, bring its genocidal leaders to trial at Nuremberg, and then stay behind to insure freedom loving, democratic leaders and institutions were nurtured and supported before leaving.

That leader was President Harry S. Truman, the same man whose birthday I share, May 8th, who was the first to recognize the rebirth of Israel on May 14, 1948…six days after my own debut on Planet Earth.

For whatever reasons, Trump folded.

While the momentum was strong and advancing nicely, America needed to make contact with key generals in Iran’s regular army, the Artesh, loyal to the Pahlavi Crown Prince, but deliberately not kept as well supplied as the mullahs’s IRGC, and launch a quick ground offensive, in coordination with the Artesh and Kurdish forces given the increased support America never really gave them in terms of adequate weaponry, and finish off this monstrous nightmare for the Iranian people once and for all, thereby also ridding the region of its chief toxic, bullying member.

Trump did the exact opposite and shafted America’s absolutely best, non-megalomaniacal, loyal allies in the region besides Israel—the Kurds, 41 million TRULY stateless people in the region, who also have the region’s only other true functioning democracy…

https://tinyurl.com/y5er6ent

Furthermore, besides repeatedly disrespecting Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel’s multiple key roles in this war, as President Trump and his VP have done, such a limited but super powerful ground assault (following the Powell Doctrine) on the mullahs, in coordination with the Artesh, the Kurds in Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere, and the vaunted, ultra capable Israeli Air Force, would have given hundreds of thousands of Iranians the opportunity to join in the final overthrow of their hated executioners and oppressors.

And, as was accomplished for both Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, America could have achieved this for the long suffering people of Iran as well— over 92 million of them.

Alas, that’s the difference two letters in an American leader make…

July 8, 2026 | Comments »

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