We should not have to look backwards to see America’s best years.

The parlor game continues in Israel: when will the United States attack Iran? Polymarket is in on the game too, with various sums placed on different dates of the new calendar month. I would be honored to have dinner with President Trump; I don’t think that I would want to play poker with him. He is very coy about his plans, talking about discussions with the Iranians on terms that they can never accept, lots of American war-fighting material entering the region and not telling Gulf countries of his plans. Will the US attack? If it does not, it may be the largest assembly of warships, planes and more that turned around and went home.

A better question could be, “Should America attack?” This is not an easy one to answer. While the flat-forehead crowd on the right believes that nothing outside of US borders should concern the president and his government, the reality is obviously quite different. Bin Laden could sit in a cave in Afghanistan and change the future of the US without having to double-park his camel. Iran has an outsized influence in the world, including on America. The Chinese buy billions of barrels of sanctioned Chinese oil for under-market prices; if a new pro-Western government came to power and joined world oil producers, the effect on Chinese economics and planning would be dramatic. Just as the removal of Maduro gives us reports that Cuba has only two weeks of oil reserves left in the country, so too the mullahs' opening new restaurants in Moscow would have a large impact on Chinese energy and Russian war-fighting. These considerations can be added to the thousands of American servicemen killed and wounded by Iranian IEDs during the Gulf War and the Iranian-sponsored terror that has led to a much less safe world. Did I mention the Iranian plot to kill President Trump? There are many reasons that have nothing to do........

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