It’s been a bad week in the West’s existential battle against the green-red alliance of imperial Islam and the Left’s demagogic, cynical, and addled American followers.

President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing a quick end to the Iran war, which would leave Tehran’s clerisy and the Revolutionary Guards with their chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. The reason Trump is said to be considering this appallingly premature step is that he wants to stick to a war no longer than six weeks.

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The oil market is global, and it is fantasy to think the United States is insulated from price surges just because it is a net exporter of energy. A quarter of the world’s oil transits through the strait each day, and the latest conflict has pushed the price above $100 a barrel. It threatens serious disruption of the world economy. 

It’s true that the price of a barrel topped $170 a barrel in inflation-adjusted dollars during the Obama presidency, but that will hardly ameliorate consumer anger now that the average price of a gallon of gasoline is just above $4. Consumers, who are voters, are feeling the squeeze with the midterm elections six........

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