Although the United States has supplied weapons to Israel, so far President Donald Trump has not directly involved us in its war with Iran. That is a wise policy. Americans remember the disastrous recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as ill-fated interventions in Libya and Syria, and know the folly and tragedies of said interventions.
Trump several times has demanded Iran completely give up its nuclear weapons program as the grounds for peace. Diplomacy, not war, is the best way to achieve this. But now many are demanding this become a regime-change war. Israel continues to target top members of the Iranian government.
On Fox News Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said regime change “could certainly be the result.” And writing in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton called for “overthrowing the ayatollahs” and promised “neither American nor Israeli troops will be staging a ground invasion of Iran.”
The problem is the track record of these regime-change wars, followed by “nation building” to institute democracy, has been terrible. Afghanistan’s Taliban regime just took to the hills, kept fighting and returned to power. Iraq became a hotbed of terrorism. About 2,500 of our troops remain there even now. Long after the 2011 bombing of Libya removed dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Libya remains in chaos.
“Somehow there’s this notion the U.S. government or Israel can do this without nation building,” Brandan Buck told us; he’s a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute. But trying to do so “would be an incentive to get America involved further. The American people need to make it known to the president and Congress that the U.S. cannot get involved directly.”
Axios reported June 13, Israeli officials said “Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn’t express opposition in private.” Yet on June 15, Trump boasted on his Truth Social platform, “We will have PEACE, soon, between Israel and Iran! Many calls and meetings now taking place.” We hope so.
Buck added direct American attacks on Iran sharply could increase oil prices, hitting consumers worldwide. As the war began, the crude oil price spiked on June 12, from $68.55 a barrel to 77.18, before settling back at $72 on Monday. He pointed out Iran could use its missiles to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 30% of the world’s seaborne oil flows from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar. Already, reported the U.S.-led Combined Maritime Force, the war is interfering with ships’ positional data systems, “posing operational and navigational challenges for maritime traffic.”
Trump should continue his diplomatic efforts to end the war and he especially should avoid direct U.S. involvement in the conflict.
He must fulfil the promise in his Inaugural Address to be a “peacemaker and a unifier.”
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