It was a dark evening. The Islamic Republic of Iran struck Israel, and Trump told Netanyahu not to retaliate, saying that a deal was very close to being concluded. This was nonsense from the beginning. The idea that the Islamic Republic would abide by any deal it made with the United States was always based on a towering house of cards of false assumptions, including the idea that the Islamic Republic wanted peace at all, and that it would give up its jihad against America and Israel, and that it would ever stop pursuing whatever weapons it needed in order to destroy both of those enemies.
Now it looks as if all that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and whoever else is leading Iran these days need in order to emerge victorious from this conflict is Donald Trump in the White House. Trump is so avid to be seen as the great peacemaker that he has turned against Israel, which is America’s ally, and embraced Iran, where the leadership screams “Death to America.” This is as craven and wrongheaded a betrayal of an American ally as Obama and Biden ever perpetrated against Israel, and Trump has done it for strikingly similar reasons, albeit with some important differences.
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