Peter Hitchens
When an audience member on BBC Radio's Any Questions )Friday, March 20th 2026) asked : Are our NATO allies cowards for not helping in the Strait of Hormuz?
Peter Hitchens, journalist, former foreign correspondent and author, responded: "I think someone has to have shown himself to be brave to call anybody else a coward. I know very few people who are brave who would ever do that, and I think that sums up President Trump, a man who has spent a lot of his life avoiding taking part in any kind of combat and who disparages an awful lot of people a lot of the time but doesn’t himself seem to have any great achievements to his credit, at least that’s not the way it seems to me. So, the answer has to be no, not cowards.
The second thing is this: this war was started by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu and they didn’t ask us before they started it. It isn’t a NATO war, NATO isn’t an alliance which is supposed to run after the United States and join in any war it starts, and there’s no reason why we should.
Thirdly, the Strait of Hormuz is a very, very difficult place in which to fight and anybody who was cautious about going there, would not be a coward, he would just be sensible.
So what he is saying is, as usual, bilge and and not merely bilge, but dangerous bilge. This is a man who stood for election repeatedly saying he would not start new wars and has just started one of the most dangerous wars in my lifetime, one for which I can see no end, and who has no idea how to finish it, did not know when he started it what the consequences would be."
The wost mistake Washington has made over this war, is not starting it in the first place but even more fundamental, in the cpmplete and utter faiure to understand and account for the Iranian mindset.
The Iranian constitution, formulated by Ayatollah Khomeni in 1979, called for the preparation and facilitation of the Mahdi, the twelfth and final prophet of Islam. His rule, so the Islamic fanatics believe, will usher in everlasting peace and justice but requires an Armageddon to bring it about. There is (or was) a clock in Tehran that publicly counted down to the destruction of Israel, the time that presumably sees the advent of the Mahdi. If the Islamics continue, this is a bolted on future. The Israelis know it as does Trump. The current Iranian regime MUST be removed. There is never a good time to start something like this and I hope it is over soon. But it had to be done. Peter Hitchens is normally sound, but in this I think this time he errs on the side of caution.
An item we posted early this month, authored by a Moroccan Muslim and detailing how the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Tehran has been formenting disorder throughout the Arab world gives a clear picture of why it is and has for some time been necesary to deal with this regime.
Trump could have prepared better with a puppet regime ready to take over, a well thought out plan to keep open the Strait of Hormuz, a deal with Russia (throwing Zelenski and the neo Nazi regime in Ukraine under the tracks of a tank if necessary,) to cover the shortfall in oil and LNG (gas)if Iran did manage to disrupt sea traffic through Hormuz and some better coordination with Israel, but the strategy, if not the tactics, is good.
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