BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE

I am ready for the Iran war to be over. I was not ready for it to start. War always means the loss of human life. The families and friends of those who have been killed will suffer emotionally for the rest of their lives.

Children have now lost parents. Spouses have lost mates. We have lost Americans. Yes, we thank God for their service to our country, but they are still dead because of a war.

I was sick and tired of Afghanistan years before Afghanistan ever ended, and the same with Iraq. They spent $2 trillion, and thousands of American lives were lost. However, it was crazy the way we left Afghanistan. We should never have turned everything over to the Taliban. We should have kept our base and airport and a couple of thousand soldiers in Afghanistan to maintain that strategic base.

Here we are again in the Middle East. Gasoline is skyrocketing. The stock market is plummeting. Americans 55 and older are seeing their retirement funds drop like a rock. Groceries continue to become more expensive. Also, innocent people in Iran are dying.

We have no way of knowing for sure how many good Iranian citizens have been killed. Not everyone in Iran is evil. Millions hate the current reigning regime and want change. It is tragic that good citizens have been and will be killed by our attacks.

This does not make us loved. We have to know that down the road there will definitely be blowback.

The current regime, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC in Iran, is evil. They recently executed a 19-year-old wrestler by hanging him in public. They did not like something he had said. These people will do anything.

This is what we have to remember and this is what our president knows.

With a nuclear weapon they would hold the world hostage. The Strait of Hormuz will eventually reopen and resume movement. Oil will eventually flow again.

If Iran had a nuclear weapon they would be able to destroy massive cities. The economic impact would be far greater than what we are currently facing.

We could pay $6 a gallon or more for gasoline before this is over. Iran, with nuclear bomb capabilities, might have brought about $10 a gallon gas or maybe no gas in some parts of the world. The death toll would have been greater because the nuclear attacks would not only have targeted Israel, but also other neighboring countries as well as the United States.

Iran and the regime had to be stopped.

The current impact is bad, but nothing like it would have been if they had been successful in building their own nuclear weapons.

Our president does not want this to go on forever. Let us pray that NATO countries will truly step up and do their part to open the Strait of Hormuz. Let us hope and pray for a government run by the people of Iran.

Without a real ending of what is currently in place, there will never be a peaceful day there or here.

Dr. Glenn Mollette is read in all 50 states. He is also the author of numerous books and can be heard each weekday morning on XM Radio 131.

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