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Ira Straus

Winning His Wars: Trump over Iran

President Trump’s instinct is to deter wars – and to win them clean and clear when we need to.

This is a time when we need to.

And it’s a time when we can still win clean and clear.

Defeating the Iranian tiger before it grows its teeth

Iran is still a paper tiger. We are still infinitely stronger.

However, Iran would get a veto on our own survival if we kept delaying much longer. It would soon get a nuclear bomb. Our world would be a lot more dangerous forever after for us.

Trump versus his Internal Obama

Will Trump be held back by the several counselors of weakness he has around him? His Administration does have its internal Obamas; we’ve known a long time how the anti-Americans on the Right can serve the anti-Americans on the Left. They’re good as naysayers – as long as he keeps them to being nothing more than that. Trump’s strong Jacksonian instincts should prevail over them.

Here’s to winning

Here’s to Israel and America overcoming all their entrenched naysayers. Here’s to overcoming all the self-defeating instincts we’ve built up in our ideological classes ever since Vietnam.

Here’s to destroying Iran’s nuclear program once and for all, the way America needs to so it can stay reasonably safe in the world. Here’s to the only way to make sure it’s once and for all: by destroying its vicious government along with its nukes.

It’s Trump’s unique historic shot at greatness. It’s be a greatness that will last through the ages.

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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