Trump has come up with a new way to deal with terrorists — rejecting the concept of ‘forever war’

The long build-up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran has produced unprecedented commentary. Many have warned of a possible “eternal war” and a morass reminiscent of Iraq and Afghanistan.

President Trump, however, has come up with a new way to deal with sponsors of terrorism and terrorist activity and has promised that if military force is needed there will be no American presence in Iran.

In such circumstances, “eternal war” is impossible and US casualties are minimal.

The fact that between 75% and 90% of Iranians hate the Islamic Republic would mean that any war waged inside Iran would be between the Iranians and the Islamic Republic would have little chance of survival.

The fact that the last massacres of anti-government protesters had to be carried out by Iraqis shows that the Revolutionary Guard can no longer be relied upon to fire on civilians, the traditional litmus test of downward pressure.

The United States and Israel have effectively made Iran a global no-fly zone and closed Iran’s ports and completely isolated that country.

They have enough air power in theater to subject Iran to a level of well-targeted air and missile and drone strikes in a day that no country can tolerate indefinitely. This will ensure that all targets in Iran of any conceivable military use or coercion of the regime will be destroyed within days.

Iran cannot sustain such a war for long. It is believed to have 3,000 long-range and 3,000 short-range missiles when it fired more than 300 on the first day of the operation.

A significant amount has also been destroyed in their archives as well as many of their launchers, although most of them are moving.

Most of the missiles launched by Iran were shot down by the country’s surface-to-air defense systems.

Aligned vs. Tehran

When it attacked many neighboring Arab countries, Iran simply increased its enemies for no apparent reason. The balance of power between the two sides is very large against Iran and the severe determination of the top leadership of the Islamic Republic both ensure that this war will not last more than 10 days, although the conflicts between Iran may continue for some time.

The definitive end of the Islamic Republic of Iran will soon be the most important day in the world’s evolution since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991.

The international balance of power is about to shift in favor of the West. The world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism is coming to an end, and the war on terror launched illegally on September 11, 2001, in the ashes of the World Trade Center, will be largely defeated.

All support for Hamas and Hezbollah will stop, and Israel will no longer have heavily armed states and organizations that cannot tolerate the presence of Israel as a Jewish state on its borders. Israel is now close to the first period of secure peace in its more than 4,000-year history.

Iran is about to stop being a supplier of cheap oil to China and instead supply Europe, along with Venezuela, and the expulsion of India as a Russian oil customer will all make it more difficult for Russia to fund its war in Ukraine.

Generally, unevenly but comprehensively, considering the revival of rational migration policies in the main Western countries, the friction between Islam and the West should enter a period of prolonged decline.

What is happening in this crackdown on Iran’s nuclear program is a renaissance of the idea of ​​nuclear non-proliferation. Although the nuclear powers have given up all pretense of full disarmament and denial of nuclear weapons to loyal countries such as India and Israel, the two nuclear powers have recently made it clear that they will not tolerate a completely indifferent state joining the nuclear group.

It erases past failures

In American domestic terms, we will now see more clearly than ever the abject failure of the Carter administration in helping to remove the Shah of Iran and the George W. Bush regime in sponsoring elections that promoted Hamas and Hezbollah, and the denigration of the Islamic Republic by the Biden and Obama administrations for their sad acceptance of Iran’s nuclear power.

The initial reaction of the Democrats to the attack of the Trump administration on Iran confirms the policy of that party strongly suicidal: It preferred the rights of violent criminals who entered the country illegally to the rights of law-abiding Americans, made a sad mess of transgender issues, deliberately funded the increased crime rates in American cities and tried to curb their use of American carbonaterror without threatening their carbon Terror industry. human health.

And now they prefer Iran to be undisturbed.

Their only policy is to torture the president who from Iran to Sudan to Nigeria is seen as the main defender of people’s freedom.

Conrad Black is a former publisher of the Daily Telegraph, now contributing editor to the New York Sun, which is also reprinted.