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 Irans 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?
Irans Leadership Likely Hopes for War
First, Irans 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 theyve been acclimated to decades of American weakness. Trump is disabusing them of that habit (while rehabilitating Americas standing as the strong horse in the region).
Second, Irans 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. Irans 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, Irans leadership just might want war with the United States.
The regime in Iran is dyingliterally. Iranian fertility rates have been plummeting for decades; the totalitarian, extremist religious leadership in Tehran has been stifling the great Iranian peoples 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 therell be a war!
Wails the plaintive Lefty throng
Who conveniently ignore
That theres 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
Whos Chamberlain-ish, or Rooseveltive:
Barry tried the art of the deal.
Trump has authored a sequel: Dealt With.