The wish for a “Happy New Year” is on everyone’s lips. The start of 2024 is a time to reflect on what that would entail.

It would involve the decisive defeat of Iran’s mullahs and the liberation of their long-suffering population, ending the threat to Israel and us from not only Tehran, but its myriad terrorist proxies and allies. 

It would see the Chinese Communist Party not only deterred from attacking Taiwan, but toppled by the Chinese people with our help. 

It would ensure that American voters have a free and fair election, unmarred by theft, fraud or other manipulations, and affording an opportunity for a peaceful and much-needed course-correction.

Are any of these things in prospect this year – let alone all of them? Let us pray they are and that it will indeed be, against all odds, a Happy New Year.

This is Frank Gaffney.