President Trump is doubling down on a bet that diplomacy with Iran will produce a deal that ends hostilities there. Yesterday, he vehemently insisted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forgo further attacks on Iran’s foreign legion, Hezbollah.
Mr. Trump appears to be heeding the advice of U.S. advisors like special envoy Tom Barrack and putative allies like Qatar and Turkey.
They previously persuaded him to engage with another sharia-supremacist regime in Syria at the expense of actual allies there among minority communities.
The result is instructive: Ongoing, murderous jihadist attacks and the prospect for outright genocide – not peace.
Diplomacy with sharia-supremacists only produces hudnas – temporary pauses that allow them to rearm, regroup and renew their jihads under more favorable circumstances.
Give peace its only chance, Mr. President: There is no substitute for decisive victory.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Frank Gaffney may not be saying what some politicians want to hear but he is speaking truth. When finally President Trump has had enough of the nice guy diplomacy and is accepting of the fact that polite patient gentlemanly politics is a waste of time which ultimately will cost more money and lives, then this game playing nonsense will come to an end.
The Art of War will once more prove to be accurate and necessary.
Israel is doing what it must to survive. It does not look like the terrorist Islamic jihadists are not backing off and Iran is still encouraging them and funding them. Trump has no business telling Israel how to defend their country. Let them do what they have to do. It is not pleasant living in a state of war all the time and having all your people in the Army or National Guard. It is a mystery why Trump is slowing down on Iran. He criticized "all the presidents in the last 37 years" for backing off, so why is he backing off now? And why is he asking Israel to back off? If Trump could answer these questions, his actions may look better, but he is not.