Newsmax host: “Sometimes you got to make pink mist, parking lots and bomb people back to the stone age, which in Iran's case, I'm actually completely fine with and even encourage it”
Carl Higbie: “I personally still think it's a good idea to turn Tehran into a thick, six foot thick sheet of glass”
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From the February 19, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Carl Higbie Frontline
CARL HIGBIE (HOST): This is what my man Trump does so well. This is actually his superpower. Do something that everyone for the moment says is totally crazy -- by the way, something that basically every other president before him said they were going to do they just didn't do. He walks all the way up to the point where he's ready to hit that big red button and then watch the person or the country he's negotiating with back down. And the reason most people back down is because they know that Trump is actually going to do probably whatever he is preparing to do, because they watched him turn the Fordow mountain into a parking lot, and then they watched him snatch the sort-of-president of Venezuela in the middle of the night. This is a massive bargaining chip for him. It's a huge piece of his power base. This type of action is what allows him to hold events like he did today with the Board of Peace, because hat tip Roman scholars, if you want peace, prepare for war.
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Look, the downside of this is that sometimes you got to make pink mist parking lots and bomb people back to the stone age, which in Iran's case, I'm actually completely fine with and even encourage it. Look, having been to war, I am generally against war, which is one of the many reasons I voted for Trump three times. But you know what? I'm on board with whatever Trump is about to do with Iran. First off, Iran should just be happy I'm not in charge because I would bomb them just out of revenge, given my intimate experience fighting with them.
And this should kind of give you some insight into why I personally still think it's a good idea to turn Tehran into a thick, six foot thick sheet of glass. But in 2007, my team's primary mission in Iraq, which borders Iran, was in fact to counter Iranian influence because 95, 99% of the munitions, guns, bombs, hardware, tech, training, IEDs were either supplied by, paid for by, or built by Iran. Two of those IEDs killed four of my friends. Three were standing right next to me. I was shot in the back by a PKM supplied by Iran, fired from an Iranian-trained militia member of the Josh al-mahdi, AKA the JAM militia during the summer offensive in Baghdad. The Iranian regime took Navy hostages, put them on their knees and blasted the pictures for the world to see in 2016. So needless to say, I hate the Iranian regime. And yes, I voted to not start any new wars, but we could finish one.