https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/03/trump-strikes-the-right-balance-with-iran/
Trump Strikes the Right Balance with Iran
Thus far, the president has found the Goldilocks zone of dealing with Iran’s perennial threat. The next move is in the mullahs’ hands.
Brandon J. Weichert
FTA:
The real question is why Iran would risk a wider conflict with the United States?
Iran’s Leadership Likely Hopes for War
First, Iran’s leaders believe they can get away with it. After every U.S. president since Jimmy Carter has backed down in the face of their threats, the mullahs behave as they do simply because they’ve been acclimated to decades of American weakness. Trump is disabusing them of that habit (while rehabilitating America’s standing as the strong horse in the region).
Second, Iran’s ruling mullahs are fiercely ideological: they believe in a missionary interpretation of Shia Islam. They also have combined this religious fervor with fanatical Persian nationalism. Iran’s leadership wants to reconstitute the power of the ancient Safavid Dynasty. This was one of the Islamic “Gunpowder Empires.” Tehran believes its geostrategic and religious objectives can only be accomplished by pushing U.S. military power out of the region entirely.
Third, Iran’s leadership just might want war with the United States.
The regime in Iran is dying—literally. Iranian fertility rates have been plummeting for decades; the totalitarian, extremist religious leadership in Tehran has been stifling the great Iranian people’s will to survive and thrive.
https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/03/on-the-death-of-a-villain/
On the Death of a Villain
Joe Long
“Oh, no, now there’ll be a war!”
Wails the plaintive Lefty throng
Who conveniently ignore
That there’s been one, all along—
Jihadis, at war with us
By their own eager admission—
Our policies should cover this
Pre-existing condition.
Our responses will reveal
Who’s Chamberlain-ish, or Rooseveltive:
Barry tried the art of the deal.
Trump has authored a sequel: “Dealt With.”