I think some great things are happening in the Middle East with regard to Israel, Saudi Arabia and the GCC taking the leadership role there. For the first time, I see the potential for long term peace over there - brought about locally and not by some outside nation.
So if that comes to pass, The United States won't be getting credit for it and probably shouldn't be getting credit for it. Let it come from within that region.
Trump is the first president to see that real solutions involve the other side saving face and not being seen as "rump" states of the USA. This was Jimmy Carter's big mistake at Camp David. He (Carter) wanted to be seen as the hero that brought the sides together.
Would our own country be as successful if we allowed France to assume the glory for our successful revolution? How would we have turned out if we had allowed France to come over here in 1783 to supervise our elections, bring us aid and assistance and tell us how we should run things?
So a successful peace in the Middle East needs to come about through those in that region.
Even at the zenith of the hostage crisis American ire wasn’t directed at the Iranian people, but at the Ayatollah. That remains the proper target of anti-Iranian sentiment, because it is, plainly, the Mullahs who are anti-Iranian. If they all vanished overnight, there would be an unquenchable party in the streets of Iran that went on for weeks.
Google “night life in Tehran” and you’ll get confirmation in a hurry. There are TWO Irans, and the one the Mullahs run isn’t the popular one.