US planes bombed three Iranian nuclear sites Saturday, returning safely with President Donald Trump calling for an immediate peace now that, presumably, the work of destroying Tehran’s nuke program is complete.
The prez had warned that he’d be deciding “within two weeks,” and as Iran made it clear Friday, there wasn’t much point in waiting as its leaders began to attempt to give world leaders the runaround again.
And that, as we noted Friday night, obliged Trump “to pay even more heed to the risks of holding off on a decisive intervention.”
He plainly decided on a fast intervention, using US bunker-busters to take out the super hardened Fordow site with two other nuclear facilities. It was an action that as we have stated gives “the best hope for the region to stabilize.”
We’ll see what comes next; Iran’s noise about the United States taking action somehow triggering “all-out war in the region” will hopefully prove to be nothing but characteristic bluster — but US forces in the Middle East will surely be on full alert for days, with bases worldwide on the watch for some sort of terror attack.
Yet most fears of escalation seem ill-founded: Iran has proved unable to do much in the face of daily pounding by Israeli warplanes — a humiliation that all by itself posed a dire threat to the regime. It can’t have been holding much back.
The president tried to get this done peacefully, giving Tehran ample time to make a deal and clear warning of the consequences.
Now, thanks to the bravery and professionalism of our armed forces, he has followed through on his warnings. The Israelis can stand down while the “regime change” crowd heads back to its think tanks and the “hundreds of thousands of Americans will die” kooks pretend they never predicted disaster.
Moscow, Beijing and the rest of the world are on notice as Trump’s clinical strikes reverse the damage of Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan pull out.
Trump doesn’t chicken out — and when it comes to war, peace and America’s national interests, he means exactly what he says.