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Trump’s justified NATO gripes, it’s a war to end Iran’s warmaking and other commentary
Conservative: Trump’s Justified NATO Gripes
Critics wrongly predicted President Trump would “announce his intention to withdraw the United States from the Atlantic Alliance” or at least “lash out at NATO” in his Wednesday night speech, smiles National Review’s Noah Rothman, “but the outrage in this administration toward America’s European allies is real.” “America’s allies may be used to the president’s casual hostility toward NATO,” yet his skepticism “is now being echoed even by the Atlanticists in his administration.” It goes beyond European “pique”: “Trump’s grievance is not with NATO per se but some of its constituent members,” especially the ones in “old Europe” who have denied overflight rights. NATO’s “success” is “self-evident” but “the work of generations” could be “undone” by “mutual vexation.”
Historian: It’s a War To End Iran’s Warmaking
Team Trump says that “the U.S. intends to finish destroying the arsenal and factories of Iran’s ballistic missile program,” cheers Victor Davis Hanson at The Free Press. And the war should also “mostly end Iranian subsidies to its Arab terrorist proxies, while eliminating Iran’s air defenses, air force, navy, and ballistic missiles and drones.” The president’s endgame challenges “are as much political as military.” Since Democrats offer “no positive counter-agenda,” they push “the perception of American defeat, in the hope they “win a new........