War is hell.
Secretary Pete Hegseth said that yesterday, and it's true. I've never served, but I know and love people who did, and my respect for those who put their lives on the line for this country is profound. I recognize the sacrifices they made enough to also know that the answer to the world's problems is not to end all wars.
Sometimes, war is necessary, as it is here in Iran. The benefits of this war are two-fold: 1) stop the world's largest state sponsor of terror from getting nukes, and 2) free the Iranian people from an oppressive regime. Especially the Iranian women who — like all women under Islam — are subjected to suppression, discrimination, and violence.
Women in Iran face discrimination, which includes mandatory hijab laws, limited autonomy in marriage, divorce, and travel, and gender segregation in public spaces. Despite being allowed to get an education, they're largely absent from the Iranian workforce.
In America, Leftist women lose their minds if someone even suggests they don't have a right to murder their unborn child (they don't, of course, but that's a topic for another column). They're quick to slap on the red Handmaid's Tale costume to protest Trump or don a hijab to show "solidarity" with women who have no choice but to wear that garment.
The removal of the Islamic theocracy running Iran will only benefit women. Which is why, of course, Leftist women oppose it. And are straight up lying about war liberating women.
Not a single woman has ever been liberated by war. In war,women are killed and raped.
— A. (@acharjee_speaks) March 1, 2026
Not a single woman? Really?
The Civil War liberated roughly two million enslaved women and girls in America. Hundreds of thousands of women were freed when the Allies liberated them from concentration camps during World War II. The Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 freed women and girls from mass rape at the hands of Pakistanis. In 1991, the first Gulf War liberated Kuwaiti women from the repression of Saddam Hussein. Later that same decade, the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo liberated Bosniak women who had been systematically raped and imprisoned in camps. The fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria liberated thousands of Yazidi women and girls who were not only raped but being bought and sold as slaves.
Things also improved for girls in Afghanistan after the 2001 War on Terror. Thanks to Joe Biden, unfortunately, the Taliban has now regained control and made life a living hell for women and girls in that country. In Iran, women have been beaten, raped, and jailed for not wearing the hijab. Some have been executed, with the Ayatollah himself ordering them to be raped before their executions so they wouldn't go into heaven. We're supposed to pretend ending that regime won't help those women and girls?
War is hell. It always has been, and it should not be entered into lightly. But sometimes the greater hell is allowing tyrants, slavers, and theocrats to rule unchallenged. History is not kind to those who stood aside while women were enslaved, sterilized, beaten, or sold. The claim that war has never liberated a woman collapses under even the lightest historical scrutiny. Freedom has often come at terrible cost — but it has come. And for millions of women across centuries, it came because someone was willing to fight. And now, the time has come for the Iranian women to be liberated.
