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Mike Huckabee’s appearance on Newsmax’s American Agenda was a welcome slap of reality to anyone tempted to shrug off the murderous rhetoric coming out of Tehran. While some commentators — even on the right — counsel caution about foreign entanglements, Huckabee reminded viewers that this regime openly cheers “death to America” and sponsors terror abroad, threats we cannot treat as distant abstractions.
Americans who live in the real world know regimes that celebrate killing our citizens are not rhetorical opponents to be placated — they are active adversaries. The Iranian theocracy has a long record of plotting violence, using proxies to strike American targets, and cheerleading mass murder; that record demands a policy of strength, not indifference.
There’s a strain of commentary, even among some conservatives, that treats the threat as someone else’s problem or as a reason to retreat from global leadership. Tucker Carlson and other non-interventionist voices have argued against endless foreign wars and cautioned about reckless adventurism, but prudence does not equal naiveté — recognizing the danger from Tehran doesn’t make you a warmonger, it makes you a realist.
Huckabee was right to call out that kind of moral complacency; America’s safety depends on honest threat assessments and decisive action when bad actors seek our harm. Lawmakers and security officials have repeatedly warned that when Iran says it intends to kill Americans, we must take them at their word and harden our posture — through sanctions, disruption of terror networks, and ironclad intelligence work.
Conservatives who truly love this country should be the loudest voices for protecting our citizens and our allies. That means backing leaders who will cut off Iran’s funding for terror, hold its operatives accountable, and ensure our military and intelligence services have the resources to stop plots before they reach our soil.
Hardworking Americans deserve leaders who refuse to be fooled by wishful thinking or fashionable indifference. If Huckabee’s message on American Agenda provokes a few uncomfortable debates among media elites, so much the better — better to argue now than to mourn later when preventable tragedies strike.
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