President Donald Trump is not like his predecessors. With a hostile regime in Tehran that has played American presidents for 35 years, the supreme commander took decisive action on Saturday to fulfill his promise that he would never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Operation Midnight Hammer was a success – America’s fine men and women in uniform destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities and came home safely.
Now starts ‘the art of the deal’. In the aftermath of the war between Israel and Iran, President Trump will have to use all his dealing to retain a fragile -fires and -most importantly -to prevent his promise to prevent America from being dragged another war in the middle -east.
Recent history has taught us that it will not be easy. Between the end of the Cold War and the first term of President Trump, every American president around the world was drawn into long -term conflicts. They knew how to bring war, but not how to get hold of peace.
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In the Balkans, President Bill Clinton laid the foundation for liberal interventionism – boots on the spot for ‘peace enforcement’, morally smoothing, and not a plan for what comes after. Subsequently, in the aftermath of the devastating attacks on 9/11, instead of limiting themselves to destroying the terrorists who had used Afghanistan as the basis, President George W. Bush implemented the same Playbook: an invasion of Iraq launching to overthrow Saddam Hussein in the American presence.
At the time I supported it, just like more than 70% of Americans and almost 90% of the Republicans. But soon Iraq turned into a sectarian nightmare that led to thousands of dead soldiers and decades of regional instability. The war consumed the presidency of Bush, Gop crashed foreign policy credibility and sowed the seeds for the rise of ISIS. In the meantime, the “good war” in Afghanistan became acid while dreams of a liberal democracy rose against the reality of the “cemetery of Rijken”.
America’s experience in Iraq and Afghanistan transformed my vision on foreign policy. So much so that by the time that President Barack Obama ran into a disastrous intervention in Libya, I decided against it.
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Millions of conservatives, bitter because they sold a bill by their own party, had the same experience. They wanted a new type of national security policy aimed at their needs and interests. And when President Trump – whose long -term opposition against the war in Iraq was known – announced his campaign in 2016, they gathered behind him.
During his first term, President Trump rewarded their confidence time and time again – and proved what the art of the deal could achieve on the world stage.
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He dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb that was used in the fight by the United States on Afghanistan, relentlessly decimated ISIS and removed Iran’s best General Qassem Soleimani. Maar hij verhinderde altijd dat deze agressieve acties langdurige conflicten werden, en hij heeft het Midden -Oosten nooit toegestaan ​​​​zijn aandacht te absorberen voor het nadeel van belangrijkere nationale veiligheidsprioriteiten: onze grenzen beveiligen en illegale immigranten deporteren, onze bondgenoten in de NAVO in de NAVO duwen om hun gemeenschappelijke verdediging te betalen voor onze gemeenschappelijke verdediging, en het nummer één van Amerika van het nummer één tegenoverliggende, China.
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Undoubtedly, the current conflict between Iran and Israel is more serious than those in the region during the first government of Trump. And the involvement of the United States is more direct, more dangerous and more likely to escalate in a broader war if it is not controlled by firm, careful leadership, able to complete the explained mission of the president to refuse the Iranian regime a nuclear claim without driving in other lanes.
But that is entirely in the wheelhouse of President Trump. This is his moment. This is why millions of Americans, discouraged by the surrender of Afghanistan and the grinding war in Ukraine under the supervision of President Joe Biden, went to the polls in November to bring him back to the White House.
He is the only leader in the world who could take this daring operation to guarantee the safety of the American people without it becoming another mid -quagmire. And if he can now keep us out of the war and concentrate on the various domestic challenges that confront us – from our falling birth rate to our failing schools – it will be one of the greatest achievements in modern American history.
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I am convinced that he will do that.
Why? Because President Trump is not like his predecessors. It is not driven by ideology or purchased by special interest groups. He is a statesman who closes deals on behalf of the American people. And at this uncertain moment, because we are ready to celebrate the 249th Independence Day of America, that is exactly what we need. Because the freedom of America is hard -fought and easily wasted.
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