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Early next week, there will be a classified briefing to Senators on Iran, in which skeptical Congressional leaders will demand answers to fundamental questions. It will also be incumbent upon the White House to demonstrate to the American people that attacking Iran would be an act of necessity, with a plan for the aftermath, before launching the B-2 heavy bombers from Diego Garcia laden with GBU-57 30,000-pound bunker busters. First, how good is the intelligence that indicates that Iran is on the verge of possessing a nuclear weapon? Israel has been saying for years that Iran was close to the 90 percent enrichment threshold. As recently as March, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to Congress that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. However, earlier this week, President Trump repudiated Gabbard’s view, positioning himself with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fear of an imminent threat. (RELATED: Trump Isn’t Looking for a Ceasefire. He Wants a No-Nukes Iran.) Skepticism about the quality of intelligence is justified: Going to war against Iraq in 2003 based on the view that Saddam Hussein had WMDs was a massive intelligence failure, leading to chaos after the Battle of Baghdad and ultimately the rise of ISIS. Further, the resilience of the Taliban was underestimated before the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, another intelligence failure. (RELATED: Avoiding the Third World Wars) Second, how cohesive is Iran, and what is the risk that it will become an ungoverned space, should the mullahs be ousted? Iran has a sense of Persian identity extending to the ancient world, and does not have the Shiite–Sunni fault line that divided Iraq. While much of the country is Persian, the coastal region of Iran has a significant Arab population, and roughly 20 percent of Iran is of Turkic ethnicity, and there are non-Turkic ethnic groups such as the Baloch, Kurds, Assyrians, and Armenians, to name some. (RELATED: Basic Thoughts on Iran) End of Iran: Long-Term Plan? Third, what is the plan for “the day after”? The U.S. was particularly inept at the reconstruction of Iraq, having dismissed thousands of Iraqi managers, military personnel, and officials controlling the security and infrastructure of the country to eliminate the Ba’athist Party — over 400,000 people by one estimate. In the case of Iran, the opposition must be well-defined and empowered to take over. So, who are they and how well do we know them — and can they be trusted to dismantle all WMD infrastructure? Fourth, if the U.S. is seen symbolically as Israel’s “sword of Gideon,” how will it engage the Muslim world in the future? There may be rage in the streets from the Philippines to Morocco, and blood may well prove to be thicker than what was the fear of Iran. Moreover, the U.S. Central Command is based in Qatar, and we have military bases in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and other countries of the Middle East. Fifth, what is the plan to respond to attacks by Iranian forces or proxies on U.S. embassies, NGOs, corporations, and maritime assets in the Gulf, and how do we assure that after the potential destruction of Fordow, the U.S. engagement will be short? Not only that, but how is the U.S. homeland protected against Iranian retaliation by means of sleeper cells that are activated? Finally, will the destruction of Fordo and its centrifuge halls, which is by no means certain, and other damage to Natanz and other sites really be enough? Iran is also believed to be in non-compliance with the requirements of the Chemical Weapons Convention — there is more WMD capability besides nuclear weapons. (RELATED: Ending the Ayatollah’s Nuclear Threat: No Better Time Than Now) The world needs an Iran integrated into trade and capital flows. Ranking third in oil reserves after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, Iran has a relatively large industrial base for a Middle East oil producer, as well as an accomplished scientific community. A moderate, secular Iran would be a relief and stabilizing force in the region, with a vested interest in integration with the West, reminiscent of earlier Pahlavi times when Iran was a bulwark against Russian influence and was America’s gendarme in the Gulf region. The power of the American presidency, regardless of party affiliation, can inspire, influence, and fascinate abroad, and Iran is no exception. President Trump should appeal to the Iranian people to remove their theocratic leadership and rejoin the world community, ending years of isolation, sanctions, and pariah status. It is well known that the merchants, women, students, middle class, and remnants of the Iranian aristocracy despise their government. Civil disobedience — when people refuse to cooperate with their government — brought down the British Raj in India. A personal appeal by President Trump to the Iranian national security apparatus not to suppress the will of their citizens would also go a long way to embolden opponents of the regime. READ MORE from Frank Schell: Defang Iran and Support the Iranian Good Guys The U.S. Needs Street Smarts to Deal With Iran Iran: Is the Worm Turning? Frank Schell is a business strategy consultant and former senior vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago. He was a Lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, and is a contributor of opinion pieces to various journals. The post Iran: The US Needs a Plan for the Day After appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Google’s profits keep climbing. OpenAI — the same company that fueled a wave of chatbot cheating — now wants to embed AI into every crevice of college life. Not to be outdone, Mark Zuckerberg just announced a new superintelligence lab, backed by nine-figure salaries and blind ambition. But somehow, the New York Times wants you to believe that “Big Tech Is Finally Losing.” If there’s a more laughable sentence in American media this year, I haven’t seen it. We are not witnessing the collapse of Big Tech. We are witnessing its coronation. Julia Angwin’s opinion piece clutches at courtroom verdicts and minor regulatory wins like a child gripping a plastic sword in the middle of an actual war. Yes, there are lawsuits. Yes, there are murmurs about monopoly abuse and transactional penalties. However, to suggest that these amount to anything more than speed bumps in Big Tech’s imperial march is to fundamentally misunderstand the scale, scope, and philosophy of power in 2025. (RELATED: Should We Believe Facebook on Free Speech?) Meta isn’t trembling. It’s cloning you. OpenAI isn’t worried. It’s wiring your children’s curriculum. Google isn’t hurting. It’s metabolizing the internet. The fantasy that competition is “finally” coming ignores the structural fact: these companies are not traditional monopolies. They are data sovereigns. Rulers not of oil or railroads but of thought itself. What Exxon was to Texas, OpenAI is to language. What AT&T once controlled with copper wires, Palantir now pilots through predictive warfare models. (RELATED: The Big Beautiful Bill’s Moratorium on AI Regulation Is Dangerous) And while Angwin dreams of cheaper books on Kindle and a “cooler” search engine, the actual frontier is generative dominance — AI agents crawling your inbox, rewriting your memories, anticipating your fears. While she celebrates Proton shaving a few dollars off its pricing, Sam Altman is quietly amassing the digital scaffolding to steer not just queries, but cognition. (RELATED: Self-Reliance: The Lost Trail of Silicon Valley) This isn’t just regulatory naïveté. It’s a category error of the highest order. You don’t bring a court order to an existential war. You don’t tame Leviathan with paperwork. And yet somehow, the Times let Julia Angwin, a longtime contributor and one of tech’s more housebroken critics, publish a piece so staggeringly off-base it reads like satire. The fact that this take made it past editors without someone pulling the emergency brake raises more than eyebrows. It raises one all-caps acronym: WTF. The notion that a search engine is simply a marketplace of results — and that more competition will somehow fix it — misses the forest, the trees, and the axe being swung. Google is no longer a search engine. It is the filter through which billions interpret reality. You don’t compete with that by launching a shinier tab bar. As for Perplexity, the much-hyped AI “competition” Angwin notes, it’s built on OpenAI’s infrastructure and trained on its models. Funded by venture capital firms that also bankroll OpenAI and its competitors. It’s not a rival — it’s a subsidiary in everything but name. This isn’t disruption. It’s stagecraft. These companies emerge from the same bloodstream, speak the same jargon, and answer to the same oddball gurus. They exist to give the appearance of competition while reinforcing the same core power structure. What Angwin calls a “technology revolution” is not the dismantling of Big Tech. Not less powerful, just less visible. Less corporate suit, more neural implant. It’s a mutation into something more intimate, more permanent, more inside you than ever before. Because this isn’t 1999. There’s no plucky startup in a garage about to dethrone Microsoft. There’s no elegant antitrust cavalry coming over the hill. The code is no longer the product — you are. Your face, your voice, your habits. Scraped, compressed, and repackaged for maximum extraction. And what’s being extracted isn’t just data — it’s foresight. Today, prediction is power. When they know what you’ll do before you do, they don’t need to manipulate you. They just need to wait. The truth is, Big Tech has never been stronger. It has never had more money, data, compute, talent, or ideological cover. It has never been closer to becoming a state within a state, a parallel government answerable to no one but shareholders and the whims of its techno-priests. And while the author gleefully recalls Apple being “forced” to let Fortnite (a wildly popular online video game) back on the App Store — as if that signals some great reckoning — Sam Altman is quietly pitching digital nationhood. Not a company. A country. One with no borders, no ballots, no constitution — just algorithms, loyalty points, and biometric onboarding. A world where governance isn’t elected, it’s engineered. Where obedience is gamified, and citizenship is something you earn by behaving the way the system predicts you will. This isn’t disruption. It’s domination dressed in futurism. And the idea that a turf war over a video game somehow outweighs that is laughable. This is the delusion we face: that because a few courts have started nibbling at the ankles of tech giants, the beasts are in retreat. They are not. They are evolving. And while the media hails procedural victories, the real work is happening elsewhere — in backrooms, in black sites, in code none of us are allowed to read. It seems like only yesterday BlackRock looked like our biggest problem. Don’t get me wrong — it’s still problematic. But compared to what OpenAI, Meta, and the rest are now building, even BlackRock starts to look quaint. This isn’t the twilight of tech. It’s just the part where it stops pretending. So no, Big Tech isn’t finally losing. If anything, it’s just getting started. READ MORE from John Mac Ghlionn: The Curious Case of the Castro-Cuddling, Trump-Hating Humanitarian America’s Dumbest Refugees Pick God’s Cruelest Joke Soap, Sex, and Simulacra: Hollywood’s Latest Moment of Madness The post Is This the Stupidest Sentence of 2025? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Here we go again. One of the recurring problems in humanity is that periodically someone (or multiple someones) shows up determined to run all of humanity, or at least all of humanity as understood in their day. A mere sampling of these names over the centuries conveys the problem. From Julius Caesar, (he the dictator of the Roman Empire BC — Before Christ!) and on to, eventually, Britains’s King George III to France’s Napoleon, to World War I Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II to Russia’s Lenin and Stalin to World War II Germany’s Hitler and on to Italy’s Mussolini, Japan’s General Tojo, China’s Mao and an assortment of various others sprinkled around the globe with names like Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Kim Il-sung (North Korea), Fidel Castro (Cuba), Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chile), and oh so many more, humanity’s dictator problem never goes away. The ideals of freedom and democracy championed so vigorously in the Western world and on occasion elsewhere have never yet eliminated the obsessive human urge to total power over others. This time around, the world is in trouble again, potentially on the precipice of not just war but nuclear war, because of Iran’s self-titled “Supreme Leader,” Ali Khamenei. Who is he? Khamenei is described, as here at Fox, as “the modern day Hitler.” He runs Iran as a police state, his first target being the Iranian people themselves. (And to their credit, rebellion against their Supreme Leader stirs.) (RELATED: Exclusive: Anti-Regime Iranians Speak Out, Discuss Widespread Discontent With the Mullahs’ Rule) And from his actions thus far, the description of the “Supreme Leader” seems apt. While Israel has made it its mission to target Iran’s nuclear program, Khameini has made it his business to do things like targeting an Israeli hospital with conventional bombs — this is but one step in his long-term goal of wiping Israel off the face of the earth. The inevitable question, of course, now arises. That would be: What the heck does the world do now? Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis has at least one, if a decidedly defensive answer. Yet another Fox headline reads: “1,500 Jewish Americans evacuated from Israel as DeSantis sponsors rescue flights to Tampa,” with the subtitle, “Florida is said to have the U.S.’s 3rd-largest Jewish population behind New York and California.” The obvious answer to what America and the world should do now is: Take out Khameini. Send one of those Israeli flying rockets to oh-so-precisely land on the roof of wherever Israeli or American intelligence says Khamenei is hanging his turban. (RELATED: Iran Miscalculated. The Ayatollahs Must be Removed.) Which is where President Trump comes in. What does he — or, for that matter, any American president — do? And do now? The DeSantis remedy of evacuating American Jews from Israel is good as far as it goes. But there is far more at stake here than that defensive move. Like — the world. Without question, the last thing President Trump wants is to launch, either by design or by accident, a new world war. The president, it needs to be said, was elected in the first place by campaigning as an opponent of what he saw as the “forever wars” of the Bushes and, more generally, some in the American foreign policy establishment. This is something he clearly deeply believes. Yet as this is written, the headline leading Fox News is: “Israel says Iran’s top leader ‘should not continue to exist’ after hospital strike.” There is, one suspects, no panacea here. But it would seem that whatever the next step, that step should be organized and executed by more than President Trump and the American military. Just as the world dealt with those earlier dictators — and yes, Hitler comes to mind — the free world and a few others should unite as one to deal with Iran’s Khamenei. Recall, Hitler finally lost to a combination of American, British, French, and Russian militaries. Writing in The New York Post, former U.S. Secretary of State (in the first Trump era) Mike Pompeo headlines: “Israel is doing the world a favor – now the US must give any help necessary to end Iran’s nuclear threat.” Pompeo writes: A nuclear Iran would pose a threat to peace everywhere. It would enable the regime to effectively hold the world hostage, with the power to disrupt the global economy or coerce other powers into bending to its will. It would insulate the dictatorship from popular pressure for change and allow the mullahs to continue their role as the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. Exactly. Without question, one suspects President Trump will be — and should be — in the lead on whatever comes next. The real shame here is that after all the history of this world, human beings have not yet learned to live in peace. But in the 21st century, all it takes is one determined evildoer to open the door to global disaster. And without doubt, right this moment, there is that one human being in our time hard at work to do that job and join his name to the historical record of global tyrants. That would be, of course, Iran’s Islamic Republic Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The question now is just how long the rest of the world — and President Trump — will stand for Khamenei’s quest for nuclear weapons and his ability to use them. One suspects it won’t be long. Buckle in. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Trump: The Success of the Outsider President Flag Day, and President Trump’s Birthday Arrives: The Left Recoils Is It Time to Dox Hakeem Jeffries’s Security? The post Iran’s Khamenei v. Trump — And the World appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.