Americans must worry that looms.
2026 cannot become as infamous as 1938.
President s dispatch of of negotiations with the rump regime atop the Islamic Republic of Iran is a moment of peril for the world, the region, the people of Iran, Israel, the United States and of course for President Donald Trump.
There is no doubt that all of the above parties â except the Iranian regime and its proxies â are in much improved positions than they were on February 27th â the eve of the battle with the Islamic Republic. The world is safer that the military and defense industrial might of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp is smashed and its proxy force of terrorists â Hezbollah in Lebanon â has been humbled again by the Israeli Defense Forces. The leaders of the civilized world, whether they say it out loud or not, are relieved.
But so too was the world relieved on November 12, 1918, the day after the Allies armistice with the Kaisers Germany.
was over with the signing of that armistice. World War II became inevitable that very same day because in the aftermath of the “the war to end all wars,” President Woodrow Wilson “lost” the peace.
Arguably the worst president of the last century, Wilsons ego and academic approach to the world and its realities condemned the world to an encore war, one that would turn out to be worse by far than the one just concluded that long ago 11/11. President Wilsons mantle was picked up by President . must reject the temptation of that cloak which covers disaster with the appearance of an agreement.
The danger is that America (meaning of course President Trump) accepts half or even three-quarters of a loaf of a “deal,” instead of demanding the capitulation of the rump regime in Iran.
That rump is run by “hardliners” â just like the tens of thousands of its own people in January and has imprisoned thousands more since while executing hundreds. Hardliners then and now are counting on the “soft” West to concede everything that matters in order to get gas prices down and the oil flowing to fully power the worlds economy. These fanatics believe they can out-negotiate President Trump. Doubtful, but possible.
President Trump is solely responsible for this negotiation. There is no Lloyd George, Clemenceau, or any of the many other parties who were present at the Paris Peace Talks at todays table. The entire responsibility for whatever blame follows â this month, this year, this decade, or even this century â rests with President Trump, just as the credit, if deserved, will as well.
The negotiations that ended in the disastrous “Peace of Versailles,” were a failure and there was no real peace at all. Long before Hitler arrived on the scene, to rearm. The Islamic Republic cannot emerge from the ruins resolved not on reform but revenge.
President Trump can agree to everything that doesnt matter, but he cannot fold on the major points. The whole world knows what a victory looks like. President Trump should settle for nothing less than , the return of the “nuclear dust” to American control, an end to ballistic missile production and to support for terrorists, Irans “lunatics” as Secretary Rubio bluntly described them this week. The people of Iran must have their basic human rights restored.
President Trumps place in history depends upon his resolve right now as does â and far more importantly â freedom for the Iranian people and stability for the entire region. It is not too much to say that the next many decades for the whole world depend upon the this week and next.
We cannot have another Munich. A few days ago President Trump stated the truth: The United Kingdom cannot afford another Neville Chamberlain. The United States cant afford its first Chamberlain, or another President Obama.
