{"id":945,"date":"2026-05-31T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2026-05-31T19:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:37:18","slug":"cal-thomas-is-right-costlier-gas-a-small-price-to-pay-to-stop-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Cal Thomas is right: Costlier gas a small price to pay to stop Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Cal Thomas wrote an opinion piece for this newspaper titled \u201cAmericans whining over gas prices ignore Iran\u2019s greater threat\u201d (Web, May 26).<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=943\">Man charged with murder in killings of 3 on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his piece, Mr. Thomas argues that our country is \u201cplagued by complainers who whine about almost everything\u201d and that \u201ctoo many [of us] appear oblivious to the threat posed by Iran, preferring cheaper gas\u201d to doing what is necessary to stop this evil regime from killing us.<\/p>\n<p>He contends that the \u201centitlement sentiment \u2026 has gripped so many\u201d that when our president \u201casks Americans to endure higher gas prices for a short time in exchange for Iran not getting a nuclear weapon,\u201d we respond that we would rather have cheap gas today.<\/p>\n<p>After rightly juxtaposing this myopia with the numerous sacrifices that our grandparents made during World War II \u2014 sacrifices that stopped Adolf Hitler from acquiring an atomic bomb before we did and thereby saved millions of people from obliteration \u2014 Mr. Thomas concludes with this simple admonition: \u201cGas prices have been high for only a few weeks. The Great Depression and World War II spanned 16 years. Stop whining, America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In short, Mr. Thomas argues that minor personal sacrifices, such as spending a little more for gas, are far less significant than what the Greatest Generation endured to protect and preserve the United States and its freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Thomas, and I am more than happy to spend a little extra to fill up the tank if that will help stop Iran from having the military wherewithal to impose its will on the world. I reposted Mr. Thomas\u2019 piece to my social media and encouraged all my \u201cfriends and followers\u201d to read it.<\/p>\n<p>Then, you guessed it, I immediately received a contrary response: \u201cIran is a threat to Israel, not to the United States,\u201d said one of my Facebook pals.<\/p>\n<p>Now, aside from my \u201cfriend\u2019s\u201d cluelessness that the survival of our only trustworthy ally in the Middle East matters, how in the world could anyone be so dumb? \u201cIran is not a threat to the United States.\u201d Are you serious?<\/p>\n<p>A five-second Google search shows that for the past 47 years alone, this evil regime and its leaders have kidnapped, killed, maimed and beheaded Americans around the globe. Here is just a short summary:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In 1979, Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 66 Americans hostage, keeping 52 of them for 444 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In April 1983, Iran backed the suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In October 1983, Iran\u2019s leaders orchestrated the Beirut barracks bombing, which killed 241 U.S. military personnel, including 220 Marines.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In March 1984, CIA station chief William Buckley was kidnapped in Beirut and later killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In December 1984, Kuwait Airways Flight 221 was hijacked, and two American officials were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=941\">Top Trump economic adviser predicts sky-high oil prices will drop soon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In June 1985, TWA Flight 847 was hijacked, and a U.S. Navy diver was killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In July 1989, the Iranian-backed, -trained and -funded terrorist organization Hezbollah kidnapped, tortured and killed U.S. Marine Col. William Higgins.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In June 1996, the Iranian militants bombed the Khobar Towers and killed 19 U.S. airmen and wounded nearly 500 other people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In August 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed. Twelve Americans were among 224 total dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 From 2003 to 2011, Iran-backed militias killed at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In January 2007, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019 Quds Force and its operatives killed five U.S. soldiers in Karbala, Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In December 2019, an Iranian Kataib Hezbollah rocket killed a U.S. civilian contractor.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In January 2020, an Iranian ballistic missile strike on the Ain al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq injured 109 U.S. troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In March 2023, Iranian drone attacks killed an American contractor in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On Oct. 7, 2023, Iran supported and funded Hamas\u2019 killing of 46 Americans and kidnapping of at least 12 others.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In January 2024, Iran\u2019s Kataib Hezbollah drone attack at Tower 22 in Jordan killed three U.S. service members.<\/p>\n<p>The list goes on and on. In addition to their ubiquitous calls for \u201cDeath to America!\u201d Iran and its proxies have killed, kidnapped, tortured and raped well over 1,000 of our nation\u2019s citizens in just the past 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>It is nothing short of astounding that someone would suggest that Iran is not a threat to the United States, and it is equally amazing that so many of us are unwilling to make a sacrifice as inconsequential as paying a bit more for gasoline if it will stop these mullahs from acquiring the means to do exactly what they have told us for decades they intend to do.<\/p>\n<p>Cal Thomas is right. We should all stop whining and just do our part. Paying a little extra at the pump is literally the least we can do to avoid having a mushroom cloud over Oklahoma and Kansas.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of \u201cNot a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth\u201d (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=939\">U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat kills 3 in the eastern Pacific Ocean in fourth attack this week<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday, Cal Thomas wrote an opinion piece for this newspaper titled &#8220;Americans whining over gas prices ignore Iran&#8217;s greater threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[746,17,331],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-opinion","tag-cal-thomas","tag-iran","tag-world-war-ii"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cal Thomas is right: Costlier gas a small price to pay to stop Iran - 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