Washington’s war hawks are molting down over President Trump’s outreach to Iran. Senator Ted Cruz says that he is “concerned.” Senator Roger Wicker fears a “disaster.” Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo deemed a preliminary agreement with Iran “not remotely America First.”

Trump and his advisors are having none of it. Responding to Pompeo, White House communications director Steve Cheung observed that “he should shut his stupid mouth and leave the real work to the professionals.” Trump, who angered Senate Republicans earlier this week by proposing a $1.8 billion slush fund for January 6 victims and by endorsing Ken Paxton for the Senate, appears to be largely indifferent to demands for a new assault. Even the report in the New York Post that daughter Ivanka was the target of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps operative who plotted a revenge killing seems to have left Trump unruffled.

Instead, he is touting a sweeping deal to terminate the 84-day-old conflict. It can’t come too soon. The........

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