Letter to the editor: Trump’s Middle East legacy is on the line
· The Washington TimesOPINION:
President Trump has just about two-and-a-half years left as chief executive of our raucous country, but if Democrats take one or both of the houses of Congress, he will be hamstrung in a few months.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps knows this and is leveraging the knowledge in a win-win scenario. Republicans lose support with voters if Mr. Trump resumes Operation Epic Fury full-on, and they lose with Hormuz Strait strife.
The Obama and Biden administrations were handicapped in the existential contest with Islamofascists in Tehran by their reluctance to employ military force. Mr. Trump saw that, but after winning the kinetic struggle, he is losing the war by knuckling under.
Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance want us to join in their delusion that the IRGC — whose sacred mission is to destroy America’s one firm ally in the region and stand with nuclear arms against America for as long it takes — has transformed into a government with which we can do gentleman’s agreements.
This is a convenient and disingenuous idea that Mr. Trump hopes will fool voters and Democratic ankle-biters, but it is as transparent as Obama-Biden meekness. Will President Trump become the loser he thinks his two predecessors were?
PAUL BLOUSTEIN
Cincinnati, Ohio