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Trump is obliterating Obama’s Iran-appeasement plan — to America’s benefit

Donald Trump has always been the anti-Obama.

He rose in opposition to President Barack Obama and has reversed many of his policies.

But perhaps no Trump undertaking runs so directly counter to Obama’s approach than the Iran War.

Obama sought to accommodate the Iranian regime, while Trump hopes to topple it.

Obama tolerated an Iranian nuclear program, even one theoretically constrained by a nuclear deal, whereas Trump wants to destroy it or set it back for years.

Obama facilitated the rise of Iranian power in the region. Trump, in contrast, is endeavoring to crush it.

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Back then, Obama operated on the basis of conciliation and caution. Today, Trump is all about confrontation and assertion.

We don’t know how Trump’s military operation in Iran will turn out. There are a number of ways to see it going sideways or falling short of its goals.

But there’s no doubt that Trump’s vision of the Middle East — with Israel and the Arab states putting their enmity behind them, while the Iranian regime is much reduced or eliminated — is more in keeping with US interests than Obama’s.

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