The Washington compost of all places. Article is behind paywall sorry. Not saying I agree with this but find it interesting.
The Trump Doctrine is here. It ends forever wars.
Like Reagan, the president has found a way to change the world without putting boots on the ground.
Critics say President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran is a violation of his promise not to engage in “forever wars.” In fact, the opposite is true. Trump is not starting a forever war in Iran; he’s ending one.
For 47 years, the Iranian regime has been waging war against the United States. That war began in 1979, when Iran seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran,
taking more than 50 Americans hostage for 444 days. The war continued as Iran orchestrated
the 1983 bombings of the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 258 Americans, followed by the
1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 Americans. It continued in 1998, when Iran provided “direct assistance” to al-Qaeda for the
1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, training its “operatives about how to blow up buildings,” according to a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
After the 9/11 attacks, Iran provided
sanctuary to senior leaders of al-Qaeda fleeing U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and allowed the group to
use Iranian territory as a
pipeline to move money, facilitators and operatives from across the Middle East. (It still
harbors Saif al-Adel, successor to Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri
as leader of al-Qaeda, in Tehran). Iran also provided training and bomb-making equipment to insurgents in Iraq, including “
explosively formed penetrators” that killed and maimed thousands of American troops.
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