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Israel gives Trump his chance to win against Iran

For 45 years, the US has been held hostage by Iran. This can now finally be ended.

America had weak leadership for most of these years. Even when it had a strong leader, under President Reagan, it had a Cold War with the USSR that it had to prosecute instead. This gave Iran the time to build up an Axis of Resistance, one that reinforced its ability to retaliate against America and hold the US hostage.

In the last year, Israel has decimated that Axis. It has thereby also freed America to free itself.

Israel is giving America its best chance ever to finish off the Islamist regime in Iran.

The tyrants of Tehran are counting on America to once again step in against its own side and save it from Israel. But this time it might not succeed.

Israel will not pause and wait for America, to be sure. It will carry on with degrading Iran’s capacity. But it may not be able easily to bring the matter to a conclusion.

It is Trump’s great opportunity to seize the moment and enable his own side to finally win conclusively.

President Trump would thereby enable himself also to finally achieve America’s goal of being able to refocus most of its efforts to the Pacific and everywhere else that it has vital interests. Previous attempts to refocus elsewhere were made several times — under Bush, Obama, Biden, and even Trump himself. But they always failed, because Iran and the Islamists kept dragging America back into the Mideast cauldron.

The refocus will never be achieved successfully as long as the Islamist regime remains in Tehran. But it will happen naturally once that regime is gone.

It is a chance for true greatness on Trump’s part. And it is his best shot at becoming a historic American statesman.

About the Author
Chair, Center for War/Peace Studies; Senior Adviser, Atlantic Council of the U.S.; formerly a Fulbright professor of international relations; studied at Princeton, UVA, Oxford. Institutions named above for identification purposes only; views expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the author.
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