Will Trump make a deal with Iran?

 The latest—March 23--from President Trump on Truth Social is at once promising and concerning:

It's promising because ending a war is usually, but not always, a good thing. There are worse things than war. It’s concerning because the Iranians Islamists are proven liars. They’ve lied about every agreement they’ve ever made with us and anyone else. Islam, in fact, teaches its adherents to lie—it’s called Taqiyya-–to infidels and even to other Muslims to defeat enemies. The Iranian Mullahs are ardent, expert practitioners of Taqiyya. They lied to Barack Obama and Joe Biden and played both like a harp from Hell.

They’re begging for a deal now because they’re in real danger of utter defeat. They’re an honor culture. Their near-total military defeat in just three weeks thus far is an irredeemable humiliation. It exposes them as the cowards and monsters they are. It’s one thing to brutalize unarmed civilians, and quite another to take on The Great Satan commanded by a man with a grip on reality. Losing their grip on power, their Islamist state losing all political and military power in Iran, would be an even greater humiliation.

And there are very personal concerns involved. Normal, non-Islamist Iranians taking control would mean the deaths of millions of the Islamist demons that have imprisoned, tortured, raped, mutilated and murdered hundreds of thousands of Iranians for nearly a half century. There is hardly an Iranian family that hasn’t been brutalized by the regime, and they’re not going to want to sing Kumbaya if they’re able to oust the Islamists. They’re going to want to kill their tormentors to make sure they never again control Iran, and who can blame them? 

If we’re smart, we want the same thing, and for the last three weeks, we’ve made a good start on achieving that necessary, world-saving goal. The destruction of the Iranian Islamists would give world-wide militant Islam pause, at least until another Democrat occupies the White House.

Apparently, Trump is not stopping our bombardment of military and other regime targets, which surely includes wiping out Iran’s ability to block the Strait of Hormuz. A deal would likely dramatically reduce gas and energy prices and would, at least superficially, prove Trump right in launching the attack on the regime.

President Trump seems to be on top of the involved realities:

Scott Johnson at Powerline concludes with this:

I hope this isn’t premature, and I hope it doesn’t condemn 90 million Iranians to more decades of tyranny. If peace does ensue on favorable terms, the price of oil plummets, and prophets of doom are made to look ridiculous, then one thing we know for sure is: Democrats hardest hit.

Quite so. Every Trump success, every benefit hard won for the American people and Western Civilization makes the Democrats hardest hit.

Above all, what would be the point of making a deal with Iranian Islamists when we know they will absolutely cheat? When we know if they remain in power, they’ll immediately rebuild their military and internal oppression apparatus? When we know they’ll immediately refund and rearm their terrorist proxy armies and work even harder and faster at building—and using—nuclear weapons? We can’t discount the possibility that Russia or China might provide nukes to Iran out of self-interest and anger at Trump for helping to tank their economies and their dreams of world domination.

Worse for the Iranian people, if they retain power, they’re going to murder millions of Iranians for daring to want freedom. They’ll engage in an orgy of torture, mutilation and rape in the process, of course. Where’s the fun and Islamic purity in merely hanging people or shooting them dead in the streets? Terrorists rule by terror.

And if that happens, if President Trump is tricked into believing the Islamists, he’ll throw away what may be a legacy on par with that of Washington and Lincoln. But what’s a presidential legacy in comparison with the safety and security of Israel and our other, feckless, allies, and with our own national security? We dare not kick this can down the road again when we’ve already come so close to ending the Iranian threat for the foreseeable future.

The Islamists are on the ropes and in imminent danger of losing anything. Ending a war, particularly a war with Islamists without utterly crushing their ability to make war, without defeating them utterly, will only guarantee even worse bloodshed and horror in the not very distant future. We can’t possibly be that stupid—can we?

Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor. 

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