Regarding Iran, at least this administration recognizes that the mullahs bargain in bad faith and weaponize diplomacy.
I warned back on March 26 that U.S. President Donald Trump would likely end the war on terms that left Iran’s core capabilities intact, declare victory and once again cast Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Charlie Brown watching Lucy pull away the football. That is precisely what happened.
Both leaders are now engaged in the time-honored ritual of putting lipstick on a pig—packaging four weeks of Sturm und Drang (“Storm and Stress”) as a historic achievement while hoping that their publics won’t look too closely at what was actually accomplished.
We are overwhelmed by the statistics from the Israel Defense Forces and the Pentagon.
The IDF reports 2,700 infrastructure targets destroyed and 1,400 Hezbollah terrorists killed in the latest engagement. At face value, these figures are impressive. Scrutinized critically, however, they prompt an unsettling question: If Hezbollah was as severely diminished as Netanyahu previously claimed, why were so many targets and fighters still available?
