The Puppet

Recently, Pope Leo used his vast platform to criticize Donald Trump and the war in Iran. He asked, “all people of goodwill to search, always, for peace and not violence; to reject war, especially a war which many people have said is an unjust war, which is continuing to escalate and which is not resolving anything.” He slips it in at the end of his statement, but he called the war in Iran “unjust”. In what way could he argue that the war was unjust? The leaders in Iran came to power in a violent overthrow and have held onto power through violence, force and subjugation. They just recently murdered 40,000 of their own people. They are the world leading state sponsor of terrorism. They have attacked the United States and its allies countless times over the last five decades. Their stated objective is to destroy Israel and destroy the United States. They refuse to give up their goal of obtaining nuclear weapons which they will use against their enemies. Where is it unjust? No where.

What would the Pope have said to David in 1025 BC? “Don’t pick up that stone. Let’s try to be friends with the Goliath who has spent the last 40 days threatening to slaughter Israel.” Should David have tried to convince Israel to make nice with Goliath and the Philistines who were hell bent on destroying and enslaving Israel? The threats of Goliath were not nearly as evil as the threat of the Iranian regime. Yet David is heralded as a hero for taking down Goliath and Trump is vilified.

In his remarks, Pope Leo added, this war “is only provoking more hatred.” That is probably the most ridiculous line he could have uttered. There is no such thing as “more hatred” from a people who hate our existence so much that they believe they are charged by their God to do everything in their power, even killing themselves, to kill as many of us as possible, and in doing so they will be sent straight to heaven. There is no “more hatred” that could ever come from a group of people who absolutely and definitively hate you already. These maniacs who are running Iran are not on the fence about how they feel about the “infidels” or the United States or Israel or the West. They absolutely hate us to the greatest extreme. That’s why they spent the last 47 years chanting “death to America!” and “ death to Israel!”. That’s why they refer to the United States as the “great Satan”. That’s why they have spent almost every dollar they have attempting to build a nuclear arsenal to use against Israel and the United States. There could be no more hatred from them toward us.

He urged leaders to “come back to the table” and find a peaceful solution to end the war. The reason why the peace talks failed in Pakistan was because the Iranian regime is determined to get nuclear weapons that they will undoubtedly use against Israel and use to terrorize the world. They will have the most leverage in the nuclear weapons game because they do not believe in “mutually assured destruction” which has prevented nuclear war for the last 75 years. That is the game changer in the equation. When you are dealing with people who believe that dying in the act of murdering as many infidels as possible, sends them straight to heaven where they will be gifted with 72 virgins, they should never be anywhere near nuclear weapons because they do not care if their country is obliterated in a nuclear war just as long as they are able to kill as many of the enemy as possible.

Russia, China and every other nation that has nuclear weapons understands the gravity and the devastation that they will set off if they preemptively start a nuclear war; the regime in Iran welcomes that level of devastation around the world. They have an apocalyptic worldview. And the Pope thinks that we can just make nice with these people who are willing to destroy themselves and their country in the process of destroying everyone who believes differently from them. Every member of the Iranian regime that is left, if they could get away with it, would chop the Pope’s head off without thinking twice. These people are not rational actors. These people are bloodthirsty maniacs. We may believe that Vladimir Putin and President Xi are evil, which they are, but they are also rational actors. They’re evil, and they have evil visions of what they want the world to become, but they’re also rational enough to not start a nuclear war. They’re not bloodthirsty maniacs who are willing to destroy themselves and the entire world for their cause.

So why would the Pope be on the side of the Muslim extremists who are running Iran? Remember what happened last Thursday. Obama sent his little minion David Axelrod to the Vatican to meet with Pope Leo, and then two days later, Pope Leo stands up and attacks Donald Trump and criticizes the war in Iran. We all know the motivation behind Obama and Axelrod. Obama is a Muslim, who hates to see the Muslim country that is leading the charge in the destruction of the West being knocked down to its knees; he also wants Trump to fail so the Democrats take back power in Congress in the midterms. We know that motivation. But why would Pope Leo listen to Axelrod and become Obama’s mouthpiece? The answer is simple. Obama works like a crime boss. This is just speculation, but Obama may have the goods on the Pope. Obama may know something about the Pope’s past which could disqualify him from being Pope, so the Pope does Obama’s bidding.

I may be wrong but it seemed very fishy that the Pope would be taking orders from Axelrod and Obama. The Muslims, especially the Muslims who are running Iran, are an existential threat to the West, to Christianity, and to the Catholic Church that the Pope is the leader of. That is one of the stated goals of Islam, to destroy Christianity and the Iranian regime is hell bent of doing so. The Pope is smart enough to know that, yet he takes the side of the extreme Muslims who want to destroy Christianity over the most pro-life President the United States of has ever had, and the President who’s going to great lengths and risking his political career to eliminate the greatest threat to Christianity. So why would the Pope take the side of the Muslims? Why would the Pope become Obama’s puppet? You do the math. The Pope should most decidedly be on the side of taking out the extremist Muslims who are running Iran.

Remember, it was Obama and Biden (which was really Obama) who funneled billions and billions of dollars to the Iranians, which they used to build up their nuclear capabilities as well as fund terrorism against Israel and the West. It was that money that Obama gave Iran that funded the October 7^th attack in Israel. And the Pope wants us to make peace with the people who funded that atrocity. The Pope is hijacking this war to present himself as a Christlike figure.

Jesus is the Prince of Peace, but Jesus is not peace at all costs. The peace at all costs mentality has created more wars than any other military philosophy. In Luke 22:36, Jesus told his disciples to “sell your cloak and buy a sword.” He understood as it is written in the book of Ecclesiastes that there is “a time for war and a time for peace.” So, if your sworn enemy has been chanting “death to America!” for the last 47 years, and they were suddenly on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons that could do just, it is fair to say that this is the time for war and not the time for peace. The Pope is not acting Christlike by allowing the enemies of Christ to win.

At some point, we must agree that the Muslims are the major problem in the world. They are in the middle of almost every war there is. And you can make the argument that not all Muslims are bad or even that most Muslims aren’t bad, but my question is, where are those Muslims? Where the “good Muslims“ who stand up against the maniacal Muslims who were destroying the world? When do they speak out against the countless Islamic terrorist attacks that are committed on a yearly basis? When do they speak out against the ongoing wars that the Muslims engage in throughout the world? Where are all the “good Muslims“ speaking out against the evils that these other Muslims are committing? They are nowhere. The leader of the Catholic Church just denounced the President of the United States publicly for the war in Iran. Where is that equivalent in the Muslim world? Where is a Muslim leader standing up and telling Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, and all the others, to stop committing terrorist attacks against the West, to stop engaging in war against the West? Where is that Muslim? Nowhere. They’re very outspoken to remind the world that Islam is the “religion of peace” when nothing that Islam has ever done in its existence for the last 1400 years has shown evidence that it is a religion of peace. Everything that Islam has ever done has continually proven that it is a religion of war and killing and murder and conquering. The “peaceful Muslims” are the sheep’s clothing that the blood thirsty Muslim wolves hide in. There will never be peace with the Muslim world because the Muslim world does not want to coexist peacefully with anyone who is not Muslim. They are in a perpetual war with us. And every peace deal we broker with them will end in war.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.