When President Trump started bombing Iran, Newsmax columnists rushed to defend his actions:
The joint U.S.-Israeli military operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran began on Feb. 28 and is officially named Operation Epic Fury by the United States, and Operation Roaring Lion by Israel.
Almost from the moment the first missile was launched, critics of President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the action as starting a new, likely endless war.
[…]But in truth we were already engaged in a war with Iran, one that Iran started.
The Iranian Revolution resulted in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty, and was conducted from Jan. 7, 1978 to Feb. 11, 1979.
Less than eight months later, on Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans prisoner.
They held them for 444 days to protest the United States for permitting the deposed Shah into the country for cancer treatment.
The Iran Hostage Crisis was arguably Iran’s first act of war against the United States.
The hostages were release on Jan. 20, 1981, minutes after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration.
That was just the first of a long series of terror attacks either committed directly by Iran, or, more often by its proxies, including Hezbollah (Lebanon), Hamas (Gaza Strip), and the Houthis (Yemen).
They’re funded, armed, and trained by Iran.
[…]Trump and Netanyahu didn’t start a war — they’re trying to end one, and bring closure to Hegseth’s “brothers who never came home,” and with any luck, return Iran to the civilized, non-Islamic society it once was.
Maybe they can even rename it Persia, in celebration of its return to civilization.
— Michael Dorstewitz, March 3
The United States is confronting a tyrannical regime in Tehran openly threatening America, Israel, and the stability of the Mideast.
At moments like this, undermining the commander in chief weakens the nation and strengthens the adversary.
The adversary is real.
[…]The faster this coalition moves to dismantle the regime’s operational architecture, the safer the region becomes.
Delay only gives Tehran time to regroup, rearm its proxies, and target American personnel and interests globally.
At the same time, the future of Iran belongs to the Iranian people.
They deserve a better future — one built on dignity, opportunity, and accountable governance. The choice of Iran’s future leadership is in their hands.
History doesn’t remember partisan maneuvering.It remembers leadership.
What the United States does now will be measured not only by Americans, but by allies, adversaries, and future generations globally.
— Ahmed Charai, March 3
The strike on Iran is something that all conservatives and Americans can morally get behind. One of the beauties of the conservative movement is that it is, truly more than the left, large, diverse and inclusive.
All viewpoints are weighed.
Leftism is a means to power and elitism.
Conservatism is a means to a better end.
[…]So, what makes this strike against Iran any different from the dreams a neocon?
While the remnants of neo-conservatism supported this strike, President Trump’s actions differ in vastly different ways from that philosophy.
First, unlike Iraq, it was Iran’s nuclear capability was much more documented.
[…]Simply put — It’s America first.
Second, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a public chance for the Iranian regime to save face.
He has done this with many despots realizing, as President John F. Kennedy did, that there is a way to offer a way out for a dictator without rubbing that dictators face in dirt.
President Trump is genuinely interested in peace.
Unfortunately, the same could not be said for those who in the days right after Sept. 11, 2001 were talking about attacking Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11, while there was still hope of survivors being pulled from New York’s World Trade Center.
[…]President Trump has done his part. He may have to attack Iran again one day if its people do not rise-up.
But the clear choice on the way forward is theirs and not the neocons, and thankfully so.
— Larry Provost, March 4
The following three recent developments help us understand why liberty, righteousness, and self-determination are on the line in Iran.
First, after the USA Men’s Hockey Team won the Olympic Gold Medal in Milan, Italy, on Feb. 22, 2026, it was obvious to the entire world that each member of the triumphant hockey team was singing from his heart the words of the American national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” concluding with “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Second, six days after the USA Men’s Hockey Team won the Olympic Gold Medal in Milan, the United States, together with Israel, commenced “Operation Epic Fury” in Iran, which is still ongoing. Presciently, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote this about peace, righteousness, valor, and triumph in his 1914 book, “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”:
“Peace is not the end.
“Righteousness is the end.
“When the savior saw the money changers in the temple, he broke the peace by driving them out.
“At that moment peace could have been obtained readily enough by the simple process of keeping quiet in the presence of wrong.
“But instead of preserving peace at the expense of righteousness, the savior armed himself with a scourge of cords and drove the money-changers from the temple.
“Righteousness is the end, and peace is a means to that end, and sometimes it is not peace, but war which is the proper means to achieve that end.
[…]We should all pray that the people of Iran will soon experience the blessings of liberty, righteousness, and self-determination.
We should also continue to thank our creator for those same blessings in America.
— Joseph E. Schmitz, March 4