The Trump Doctrine is here. It ends forever wars.

The Washington Post ^ | March 03, 2026 6:00 a.m. EST | Marc A. Thiessen

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Like Reagan, the president has found a way to change the world without putting boots on the ground.

Critics say President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran is a violation of his promise not to engage in “forever wars.” In fact, the opposite is true. Trump is not starting a forever war in Iran; he’s ending one.

For 47 years, the Iranian regime has been waging war against the United States. That war began in 1979, when Iran seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 50 Americans hostage for 444 days. The war continued as Iran orchestrated the 1983 bombings of the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 258 Americans, followed by the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 Americans. It continued in 1998, when Iran provided “direct assistance” to al-Qaeda for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, training its “operatives about how to blow up buildings,” according to a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

After the 9/11 attacks, Iran provided sanctuary to senior leaders of al-Qaeda fleeing U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and allowed the group to use Iranian territory as a pipeline to move money, facilitators and operatives from across the Middle East. (It still harbors Saif al-Adel, successor to Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri as leader of al-Qaeda, in Tehran). Iran also provided training and bomb-making equipment to insurgents in Iraq, including “explosively formed penetrators” that killed and maimed thousands of American troops.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: foreverwars; humor

[Skwor]

Pretty much how I see it

[Lurker]

Me too.

L

[Responsibility2nd]

What is this? I’m actually reading a pro Trump article from the Washington Post? Is this upside down day?

[stanne]

The Washington Post published this?

[SaveFerris]

Check the windows 🪟🪟🪟
for Flying Pigs 🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖

[freedomlover]

[Texas Eagle]

El WaPo allowed this to be printed? Heads will roll. Or explode. Hopefully explode.

[UnwashedPeasant]

“That war began in 1979”

Thanks to Jimmy Carter; the father of modern Islamic terrorism.

[Salman]

Wapo our guys now?

[Coronal]

It’s an opinion piece from Marc Thiessen.

[reasonisfaith]

The Patriots are in control.

[TheDon]

Same.

[FamiliarFace]

And a great one! I am surprised that the WP published it. Their readers’ heads will explode.

[reasonisfaith]

Have you heard the old saying, oft maligned by the ignorant, to trust the plan?

[ComputerGuy]

The bastards have never been made to pay for Beirut.

[marron]

I think people misunderstand how Trump thinks. He has probably since his first administration decided that the Ayatollas needed to go. From that he works backward, working out the steps that he can explain to his base and his allies. If something is in the legal gray area, what has to happen to make it legal? A lot of his Trumpisms are purposely ambiguous so that his enemies don’t see him coming and his friends don’t bail on him.

The IRGC was always going to go. The Castros were always going to go. Maduro was always going down. The only question was what had to happen to make it possible.

He is clearing the board of threats and enemies previous presidents were afraid to deal with, or even complicit with. If he pulls it off they’ll be putting up statues of him.

[Coronal]

They publish stuff from people like him and George Will all the time. This isn’t at all unusual.

[stanne]

Ya. The WaPo could be part of the plan. We still get to be awed

[Sarah Barracuda]

I want the ENTIRE Iranian regime GONE..as long as no boots on the ground Im happy..Im saddened at the loss of our soldiers in Kuwait I had hoped no one from our side would be killed, so that breaks my heart everyday..I hope we can avenge their deaths and their families can know their deaths will NOT be in vain