The Washington Post Editorial Board is just continuing the media policy of slamming Trump and not slamming Iran, because Orange Man Bad
Proclaiming Trump victorious in Iran is shortsighted and premature
THE ESCALATING confrontation between the United States and Iran paused on Wednesday, which, as President Trump put it, “is a good thing for all parties concerned.†Having demonstrated that it can strike Iraqi bases where U.S. troops are deployed with precision, Iran announced that it had “concluded†its response to the killing of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani; Mr. Trump, reporting that no Americans were killed or injured by Tehran’s missiles, set aside the sweeping attacks he had threatened on 52 sites inside Iran.
Mr. Trump’s acolytes quickly proclaimed him victorious for having eliminated the architect of Iran’s foreign adventurism while avoiding a more damaging response. That assessment was premature and shortsighted. Iran’s strikes on U.S. interests and allies will almost certainly continue in the coming months. Unless the Trump administration quickly steps up its diplomatic game, what Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called his ultimate aim — the removal of the United States from the Middle East — could soon be realized in Iraq and Syria.
Um, I’m betting most who aren’t deranged Trump haters, like the WPEB, are glad Trump whacked Suleimani, a man with the blood of hundreds of Americans on his hands. A guy who was a big part of the whole “death to America” crowd in the Iranian Islamist government. A guy who liked to torture children and women. Killing him is rather victorious, in the same way as killing Osama Bin Laden. I don’t remember the WPEB chiding Obama and his acolytes for spiking the football when Obama had him whacked, do you? Most Americans, right and left, celebrated it. They didn’t take the side of al Qaeda and the hardcore Islamists around the world.
But, Orange Man Bad, so, the WPEB has to push ahead with taking Iran’s side. See, we should be talking to them, giving them billions and billions in cash, removing sanctions which allows Iran more money for their anti-American, anti-Israel, hardcore Islamist operations, and allw them to normalize relations. Maybe a deal which would provide them help to build nuclear weapons in 5-10 years
Mr. Trump ought to embrace the pause in hostilities as an opportunity to begin serious negotiations with the Islamic republic. That is the course favored not only by a majority of Americans but also by Mideast allies such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which have been pressing for restraint. Though he nodded to the idea, saying the United States was “ready to embrace peace,†Mr. Trump also said he would intensify already-massive sanctions on Iran. That campaign of “maximum pressure†has failed to bring about the new nuclear negotiations Mr. Trump says he wants, much less the regime collapse or capitulation his more hawkish advisers hope for. But it virtually ensures that Iranian responses like last year’s attacks on Persian Gulf shipping and Saudi oil fields will continue.
Iran has been the prime aggressor against the U.S. since 1979. What, exactly, are we to negotiate on? They really gave up nothing for Obama’s little deal. And were violating the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action within a year of signing it.
But, hey, Orange Man Bad. Democrats and their pet media should consider that all this support of Iran will show up on the campaign trail. It may not have been Trump’s intention to create a political issue, but, he has one now.
