Winning a war is rewarded in American politics. Sticking out even a very costly, not very useful war is better politically than bugging out.

Johnson-Humphrey tried to bug out, in keeping with media-peacenik demands – and lost the 1968 election. Nixon in Vietnam and Bush II in Iraq did the opposite. They continued trying to win, learned from past mistakes so they could fight better, and won re-election handily – Nixon by a landslide.

The Iran war is many times less costly than were theirs. And many times more useful.

But in this war, it is the interminable series of truces of the last three years, always in the name of peace, that have demoralized the public. The peace pretensions have always proved mirages; the truces that have in reality dragged the war out into the present, preventing victory, setting us back each time we moved forward, enabling the enemy to recover and find ways to make it harder for us to win – and causing far more people to die. Those are the costs of a fake policy. If continued much longer, it would carry the war and the demoralization alike straight into the November elections.

President Trump has an urgent political need to do the right thing for America: stop the pattern of truce mirages and proceed to win the war.

The actually threat to Trump in November: yielding to the Biden-media line

Were Trump instead to continue in the same pattern as Biden – the pattern of stopping every military step our side takes in midstream, imposing one truce after another, and making claims of victory and peace that always prove mirages – the war might well continue into November and beyond. Trump will lose big in the elections in that case.

This is in fact the unstated calculation of his enemies, Democrats and the media alike. They keep acting to maneuver him into doing more truces and fake peaces. They tell him that........

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