When Iran struck Israel on Sunday, President Donald Trump demanded that the Jewish nation stop firing back. But when Tehran struck a U.S. military helicopter the next day, it was “bombs away” against the Islamic Republic. You can call it strategic, but I call it hypocrisy.First of all, those who claim Trump is Israel’s puppet — and not the other way around — are eating some serious crow right now. But more importantly, Trump’s pride-fueled push to preserve his precious ceasefire has been exposed as just that: a project of his ego. We already know he’s trying to win a Nobel Peace Prize and/or an eternity in heaven by negotiating peace deals around the world. He routinely rattles off his diplomatic achievements to the press, and for good reason. He’s done a great job ending conflicts. But he’s having a hard time coming to grips with the fact that some conflicts can’t be ended with diplomacy, especially when you’re dealing with a jihadi regime willing to be “martyred” in the fight against the “great Satan” and the “little Satan.”
I’m not posing a hypothetical when I say that if Iran attacked the United States, rather than Israel, Trump would have no problem retaliating — this is exactly what happened a day after he prohibited Jerusalem from striking Tehran. This so-called ceasefire has been violated countless times, and the U.S. has been “two weeks” from ending the war for months on end. I supported Trump’s military operation to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. But neither Iran nor Israel wants a ceasefire right now. So let them have it out, and get involved when it’s strategically advantageous.
