Just imagine if Joe Biden or, indeed, any past president had released $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds, alienated our oldest allies, handed Tehran control over the Strait of Hormuz, and dropped U.S. oil sanctions against the regime.

All while fighting a war that some experts believe may cost American taxpayers more than $1 trillion.

Donald Trump would be the first to call it a catastrophe.

But as the president rushes to make a deal to end a war that never should have begun, we are fast coming to understand the consequences of this disastrously thought-out venture to bolster one man’s ego.

Trump has not rid us of a threat—he has created a global superpower from the one enemy that is most fundamentally opposed to the United States.

And the world is in much greater jeopardy as a result.

Tehran did not bow down and surrender at the first carnage caused by a Tomahawk, no matter how many of its leaders were killed. Nor did it give up the Strait of Hormuz. Probably because it had been planning for this kind of attack for decades.

And now the U.S. is backed into a corner, desperate to make concessions........

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