The year 2026 quickly put 2025 to bed.
The year 2025 began with a terrorist attack in New Orleans and ended with the terrorist attack in Bondi Beach, Australia.
God forbid innocent Americans enjoy Bourbon Street or innocent Jews celebrate Hanukkah without being murdered.
Next time will be elsewhere.
Innocents will grieve.
Nothing will change.
Wrong.
Things can change.
Change just requires a global iron will nonexistent since George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Jose Aznar, and John Howard led the Anglosphere.
The Taliban and al Qaida were routed.
Saddam Hussein was removed from Earth.
Barbarians were on the run.
Yet given a chance to finish Islamist jihadists, the world blinked.
The Madrid bombing cowed Spaniards into electing a leftist peacenik.
Australia replaced John Howard. Americans rejected war hero John McCain in favor of left wing faculty lounge academic Barack Hussein Obama.
England's Labour Party descended into madness, led by anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn.
It's long past time to admit the Neocons were right about virtually everything.
The way to stop innocent people from being murdered is to take the fight to the enemies. With Islamists, drug traffickers, human traffickers and their enablers, diplomacy is useless.
Force is the only solution.
Let those on the left, and Ron Paul dazed and confused adherents, melt down.
They had their chance on the world stage.
They failed.
It was time to bring back the adults and eliminate threats to the civilized world.
The adults began 2026 by laying down the law within the bounds of international law. U.S. President Donald Trump blew up drug boats and seized Venezuelan oil tankers.
He ousted and captured Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, a drug lord who illegally seized power. Maduro's Fentanyl killed many more innocent Americans than Osama bin Laden's al Qaida.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had every right to send a third world drug thug a militarized hug. The holiday greeting could be described as, "Dear Narco . . . Love, Marco."
The message was clear. To make America and the civilized world safer, send the diplomats to bed. Let the adults handle things.
Venezuela is proof that force works.
Regime change is the only answer.
Go beyond Venezuela.
Enact regime change in Iran.
The mullahs must go.
President Trump can stop pursuing a Nobel Peace Prize he may never receive.
His peace agreements will mean little if the world's worst global sponsor of terrorism survives. For reasons only he knows, Trump has not finished off Iran's mullahs.
He must embrace his successful Venezuela policy clearly in Iran.
At the very least, let Israel finish the job.
Every day the mullahs rule Iran is a foreign policy problem.
For all Trump gets right, the world will go up in flames if he does not get the biggest foreign policy problem right.
Beyond Iran, regime change is necessary in Minneapolis.
Stop buckling to false accusations of racism, sexism and Islamophobia.
Minneapolis is drowning in corruption that directly affects public safety.
Widespread fraud showed evidence of money-laundering that funded Islamist groups in Somalia and elsewhere.
The federal government must crack down hard on Minneapolis.
Hand down RICO indictments. Make massive numbers of ICE arrests.
If a sitting congresswoman after a fair trial is convicted, strip her citizenship and deport her.
Send a message to every elected official with Islamist or other terrorist ties.
Deporting Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., would have Ayatollah Mamdani quaking in his wife's designer boots. Innocent Muslims will have nothing to fear.
The guilty should fear every day they intimidate and or terrorize this planet.
Finally, accomplish regime change at Harvard and other Ivy League universities.
These colleges charge parents hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for turning America’s children into America-hating lunatics.
Self-policing failed.
The First Amendment does not give universities a right to create a new generation of violent revolutionaries.
The federal government must use extreme measures to combat extremism.
Rogue university presidents must be shown the exits.
If they resist, shut these colleges down.
Under the George W. Bush doctrine, any entity that shelters, harbors or finances terrorism is as guilty as the terrorists themselves. Guilty universities must be financially decapitated. Campuses can protect Jews or cease to exist.
Islamist terrorists are murdering Jews while Narco terrorists endanger all Americans. Money from Iran and Minneapolis funds global terrorism.
Money from Iran, China, and elsewhere funds American university curriculums, which creates more domestic terrorists.
This new Axis of Evil must be strangled financially and politically.
Leaders of Iran, Minneapolis, and Harvard must be replaced.
Forcible regime change is the only way Americans can have a chance at safety.
To Jews under siege, stock up on protecting yourself. Happy belated Hanukkah.
To non-Jews in America wondering why we cannot just focus on America, wake up.
Islamists and other terrorists are already coming for us.
Europe is finished. America can stand up against terrorists or embrace isolationism and eventually fall to the caliphate.
Happy 2026.
Eric Golub is a comedian, author and retired stockbrokerage and oil professional living in Los Angeles. His interests include football, politics, Judaism, the stock market, and Angela Lansbury's "Murder, She Wrote." He has written for the Jewish Journal, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart's Big Hollywood. Read More of Eric Golub's Reports — Here.
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