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On Iran, trust Trump’s instincts
The Spectator ^ | 23 June 2025 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 06/23/2025 9:56:15 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Those who compare Trump’s actions to the ‘forever wars’ have seriously misjudged him

What now?

After the daring and what everyone is describing as a “flawlessly executed” attack by the United States on Iran’s hardened nuclear facilities Saturday night, Macbeth’s words must be on the minds of many: “If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well / It were done quickly.”

Things did not work out so well for the Thane of Cawdor, as Macbeth then was. But even though his attack was not “the be-all and the end-all” he wanted, everyone who wishes for peace must second his opening argument. With the ground prepared by Israel, the United States mounted Operation Midnight Hammer, a stealthy and precisely targeted attack against the infernal workshops of a terrorist state dedicated to the destruction of “The Great Satan” (America) and “The Little Satan” (Israel).

The stealth, by the way, was not confined to America’s B-2 bombers. Part of that equation was Trump’s cunning declaration a few days back that he would decide about whether to launch an attack against Iran’s atomic-bomb making facilities “within two weeks.” That declaration disappointed those hoping for an early kinetic response by the United States. Doubtless, it also encouraged the Mullahs, who must have concluded that Trump was cut from the same cloth as many of his predecessors. In fact, the “two weeks” gambit was but a ruse de guerre.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: letthepresidentdoit; trumpbasher

1 posted on 06/23/2025 9:56:15 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
On Iran, trust Trump’s instincts

I don't trust anyone in public office at face value.

I didn't "trust Trump's instincts" when he was clamoring about exempting farms, hotels and construction sites from ICE raids a few weeks ago. He got that message loud and clear.

2 posted on 06/23/2025 9:58:58 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Who was it who said that Trump should be taken seriously, but not literally?


3 posted on 06/23/2025 10:01:36 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

It was a wise observation during his 2016 campaign. It may have been Pittsburgh columnist Salena Zito who said that.


4 posted on 06/23/2025 10:02:53 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Did Trump change his mind on those exemptions?


5 posted on 06/23/2025 10:15:00 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Rummyfan
I trust The Trump Implicitly.
6 posted on 06/23/2025 10:15:38 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!s)
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To: Rummyfan

If not now, when? Wait til another Obama gives them billions to rebuild?


7 posted on 06/23/2025 10:25:22 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: Alberta's Child; Jamestown1630

It was Salena Zito. I have that link on my homepage.


8 posted on 06/23/2025 10:44:41 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: madison10

Yes


9 posted on 06/23/2025 10:45:46 AM PDT by dkGba
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To: madison10

He may have changed his mind, but I didn’t see the fanfare on his social media page announcing it.


10 posted on 06/23/2025 11:12:53 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: Rummyfan

Considering the outcome, Iran capitulating with a failed symbolic attack on an abandoned airbase, everyone here should be cheering. Those claiming Trump was getting us into another war were wrong. They should be happy, just as those who supported Trump taking out Iran’s nuclear weapons development facilities are happy. Trump was right. Tucker, Bannon, Kirk and the rest were wrong.


11 posted on 06/23/2025 11:15:56 AM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Rummyfan
Distrust the bomb and kill our way to democracies in the middle east strategy. It's failed over and over again.

It would be absurd to Trump to waste political capital on war with Iran when he has mandate for his domestic agenda.

He was elected to be George W. Bush and get us involved in a war with Iran.

12 posted on 06/23/2025 11:23:02 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Alberta's Child

You winded about nothing.


13 posted on 06/23/2025 1:45:04 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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