War time speech-making is a lost art. I don't think any American President has ever given an impassioned or well-reasoned war time speech in this century or the last. Not Wilson, not FDR, not Johnson. I want to be respectful, but objectively, if you go through the historical record, U.S. Presidents just don't give good speeches during war. Patton gave a great motivational speech to his soldiers but it wasn't anything close to poetry.
And Pahlavi is under the delusion that his word carries any weight in Iran. What few followers he has are inconsequential because they don't have arms. Pahlavi is not even a side character in this war. He's in the nosebleeds, not in the game or by the sidelines on the bench. He needs to sit down and be quiet. His father forfeited the right to rule for any Pahlavi. He was too afraid to execute Khomeini back in 1963 and too afraid to solve the Islamic insurgency with brute force when it developed in the late 70s. Iran doesn't need another weak Pahlavi on the throne.
So save your speeches. Save your breath.
All three of these characters - Trump, Netanyahu, and Pahlavi, - should stop talking and retire to private life. Each one of them is suffering from a Messiah complex. And the people around them aren't helping by feeding their craziness.
