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I'm reminded at the very end of my book, Liberty and Tyranny, I left a quote from Ronald Reagan. I'm sure you're familiar with it by now, but it's worth emphasizing. President Reagan said, "Freedom is a fragile thing, and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance. It must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. That's how fragile our freedom is. And it is Albert Einstein.
No dummy. This quote is attributed to him by some. Some say it came from somewhere else. It doesn't matter. It's a brilliant quote. I know not with what weapons World War II will be fought, but World War I will be fought with sticks and stones, the nuclear age. And that's what we're dealing with. and we have a tenative deal on the table with 60 days to debate, discuss, negotiate down the road. Now, but my father once told me, Mark, say what you believe and believe what you say. No matter what. And so here we are, no matter what. You know, during the last several months, I've explained how the political, fundamentalist, ideological basis
of the Iranian regime's very existence makes negotiations and deals with the regime ultimately fruitless. Not because of our president or our secretaries of state in war. No, but because of the regime's belief, their belief system, their very purpose for existence. The Iranian regime simply does not share our Judeo-Christian belief systems and values. In fact, it views Judaism, Christianity, other faiths, and reformers in their own faith as obstacles to Allah's demands and to the appearance of the 12th Imm. You heard about the 12th Imam? Simply put, the world's population must either convert or comply, be conquered or eliminated, unless it follows Allah in the fundamentalist, ideological, political way the Islamists demand.
All Muslims are not Islamists, but all Islamists share this ideology. The Iranian regime not only rejects the legitimacy of other faiths or any reformation, but it rejects the legitimacy of the West. The West, especially the United States, and especially the state of Israel, which is in its neighborhood. Let me make this really clear. The war with Iran is a war between civilization and barbarism. It's not a regional war. It's not a countryto- country war. This is where the rubber hits the road. This is a war between civilization and barbarism. 7th century barbarism. That is it's more much more than people are describing it to you. Much bigger.
And yes, everything is on the line. You'll notice how the regime conducts itself. It is early medieval. its treatment of women and gays, its mass torture, rape, slaughter, public humiliation, and executions by the tens of thousands. And it's not only the Iranian regime, but its terror proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and scores of others. The Iranian regime, however, is the mothership. It is the it is ground zero. It's the point of the spear. If the regime survives, so does its proxies. Our government needs to understand that no paper agreement, no matter how good the terms seem, will in the end be honored by this
enemy. The proof is everywhere. It's all around us. The last 47 years, nearly half a century, the regime has violated every single agreement it has ever entered into. regardless of who has made the agreement with. To ignore this, I think is to make a historic mistake. And as I explained last week, the Iranian regime must destroy us. It must destroy Israel. It must destroy civilization in service to Allah. Their constitution mandates expanding Islamic governance, a revolution, viewing the suppression of the revolutionary ideals as an existential failure rather than just a military setback, as the free press put it. The regime equates ideological resilience with divine favor.
They believe that even if they suffer temporary setbacks or blockades, ultimate spiritual and regional victory is inevitable as long as their core belief system remains intact. As long as it survives. Now listen to me please. Theirs is a worldview revolution that seeks to destroy the modern world, the civilized world, as well as ancient faiths that came before it, including Judaism and Christianity. We are its eternal enemy. The West is its eternal enemy. Israel is its eternal enemy. And most of all, we the big sat that's the prize because we're the biggest superpower in the world. We are the biggest
superpower in the world and to them the greatest threat. The Iranian regime is at war with us whether we like it or not. They're at war with us whether we are at war with it, whether we sign agreements with it as we have in the past. And there is nothing that's going to change it. Nothing. Let me repeat. Nothing except its destruction. That's it. This is why in my view it must be destroyed where I feel it will never be destroyed. At least not with some great massive military operation the kind of which we do seek to avoid. Despite the best and even heroic efforts to try to contain and control it, they will not be contained or controlled.
Certainly not in the long hall. Certainly not in the future. Let's be straight with each other. I think that's important. Our government and culture are such that we will not be on a constant war footing to address their violations as they reconstitute and reinforce the regime, including with money that they eventually receive from us. Let me put it this way. Our system of government requires regime change in our own country. We have elections. We have political parties. We do this because we do not want permanent administrations in totalitarian government. The Iranian regime and the Islamists do. They do not and cannot tolerate dissent, protest, challenges. To permit such behavior is to in their view attack Allah.
The revolution belongs to Allah. That's the point. They're not going to give it up. They seek billions in funds and oil sales and whatever else ultimately is decided by us and by anybody else not to improve Iranian society, not to feed the people of Iran, not to create a civil society, but rebuild its police state, reinforce its military, build thousands more ballistic missiles, and yes, to support its nuclear program, especially after President Trump has left office. Unlike us who watch and react to every media cycle and election cycle, they have no cycles. They are driven, obsessed revolutionaries.
They live by the sword. They are prepared to die by the sword in the name of Allah. If they survive, the regime will live long after the Trump administration or the next administration. long after Republican control of Congress. I will stake my reputation here and now on the fact that they will continue to pursue nuclear weapons, ICBMs that can reach our country, fund terrorist organizations, and never surrender the revolution to the very people and governments they seek to destroy. I know this is hard to hear. I know this is unpleasant. I know I may be in a minority today. I know I will be called a wararmonger.
I will be called an Israel first. I will unpatriotic Jew. I've been called a lot. My faith is under attack. I get it. But that's the way it goes. The fact is that the Iranian regime, it wants to destroy our country, our civilization, our way of life, indeed our lives, and it wouldn't give it a second thought. As the president has said, if they had gotten a nuclear weapon, they would have used it against us. He's 100% right. You know, every generation has a responsibility to the next generation and generations thereafter. This is our generation's responsibility to our children and our grandchildren and our country and to civilization.
We've come so far, much further than any president has been willing to go to confront this gravest of threats. Despite all the opposition he has faced, all the political attacks, the midterm elections, the price of a gallon of gasoline, this president, and only this president, has brought us, the free world, the civilized world, much of which is dragging and kicking or sitting on the sidelines. He's brought us to the point where we truly have the capacity to put this to an end. But do we the people of the United States? Do we the people of the free world? Do we have the will to see this through?
According to the polls, we don't. What will our generation do as past generations ensured that we would live in a free, secure, and open society. And they sacrificed far more than most of us and a whole lot more than a temporary increase in the price of a gallon of gasoline. We know where the Democrats stand. We know where the media stand. We know where the isolationists stand. They stand with the enemy. They give aid and comfort to the enemy. This is a fact. As a footnote, I must confess that in all the news reports and the leaks and the rest, I see nothing about Iran's ballistic missiles.
Why is that? Is that too difficult to get them to stop building? Doesn't that prove my point? You'd imagine if thousands of ballistic missiles are launched at once, each with enough firepower to blow up an entire neighborhood or city block, enough to destroy the state of Israel, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and we now know that they can reach Europe. How about Paris and London? Does that get anybody's attention? And how about in a few years the United States of America? Does that concern anybody? It's unbelievable to me. Israel is the closest to Iran among us and it cannot tolerate an agreement without real protections. And what if Hezbollah that works for Iran that rains down missiles on Israel making northern Israel uninhabitable?
Would we shake hands, smile, and go along with such a situation? Or would we unleash holy hell against such an enemy? Say if Mexico was doing it to us and Texas and New Mexico and Arizona and other country and other states were being hit, we wouldn't put up with that for one damn second. What are the people of Iran about whom we used to talk all the time? Is it left to them to rise up against the regime again and again with tens of thousands murdered with only their bare hands? Is that what we're telling them to do? They already did it. Are we not going to arm them? Are we not going to help them? And where do we think any funds released to the regime will go? To the very people it slaughters?
No, it'll go to the regime, its army, the RRGC, its police. It'll go for more arms, more munitions, more technology to build nuclear weapons. Am I wrong? Just tell me, am I That's their pattern of behavior. They're going to sign the agreement and they're going to say, you know what? We surrender everything, including our ide ideology, including our reason for existence. The truth is that President Trump inherited an absolute disaster from our prior presidents. It's really a sin what was done to this country and the world, especially Biden and Obama funding the enemy, laying the groundwork for them to
get nuclear missiles. Other than Israel and their great leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, there is no other ally willing to fight beside us. None. Not the Europeans, not most of the Arab countries. The president could have ducked. He could have hemmed in and haul like the rest of them, but he didn't. He's a courageous man. He's a moral man, and he cares passionately and compassionately about us, his fellow Americans. What I know is that he loves our country. He will do the very best he can to safeguard it. that I do know. And that allows us to sleep at night.
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