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Conrad Black: American decline is a myth
The widespread drivel about American decline has been drowned out in the fall-back lamentation of Trump hate
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The Middle East is changing unpredictably from one week to the next. It is clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is determined to achieve his objectives of ending Iran’s nuclear military aspirations and its sponsorship of terrorist activity especially on the borders of Israel but also across the world, and he is determined that Iran not interrupt the flow of oil from the Middle East, even though the United States is not much affected by it. It is also clear that he will go to considerable lengths to achieve his objectives without inflicting terrible violence on the unoffending and long-suffering civil population of Iran.
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It is not the least of Trump’s achievements that he has developed a technique for accomplishing foreign policy goals with minimal casualties to the United States and civilians of affected countries: this was the case in removing the president of Venezuela and blowing up Iran’s nuclear laboratories last summer. Trump knows that he will lose all credibility if he fails in Iran and he knows that his strong claim to be an important and successful president of his country depends on his accomplishing a reasonable success in the current Middle East crisis. It is also more obvious than ever that the correlation of military forces between United States and Israel on one side, and Iran on the other is........