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Horatio in Our Time

Ben Stein
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President Donald J. Trump attends the dignified transfer of six U.S. servicemembers killed in the Middle East, Mar. 18, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. (Official White House Photo by Abe McNatt)

These are the times that try men’s souls. The light of man’s souls, the United States of America, is seeking to rid the earth of basic, powerful evil, namely Iran. This nation has for roughly fifty years been tormenting mankind with global terrorism in the form of mass murder.

The only stalwarts standing up to Iran lately have been Israel and the USA. When the mullahs of Iran, the killers in Tehran, begin every day by prayers asking for the death of Israel and the USA, only Israel and the USA reply with mental and emotional and military strength.

Iran’s rulers promise to make Earth a killing ground for over 100 million people. Messrs. Trump and Netanyahu have put their populations on the line to save humanity. The thanks they get is basically nil.

Right now, Messrs. Trump and Netanyahu are Horatio at the gate for all mankind. That has made mankind raging angry at Israel.

The conflict is good vs. evil. We have to win it.

I am scared as hell. Please, dear Lord. Please.

Imagine if Adolf Hitler did not believe that a self-sustaining nuclear reaction was an impossibility, a Jewish/British trick to divert German physics — and if then German physics had created a workable nuclear bomb. Imagine that. That is what we would be faced with right now from Iran.

Thank you, dear Lord, for Donald Trump.

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Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
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