VDH: Iran and Trump’s Next Strategy for Endgame

This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  

We’re approaching five months of our on and off war with Iran, but it’s not really quite five months of war. It’s more like forty days of kinetic action, the first forty days, and then the subsequent hundred and ten days are often on negotiations with the Iranian regime, once in a while punctuated with exchanges of missiles and bombs, etc. 

So where are we now? What is the strategy of the United States? We’ve been talking about the midterms for seven months, six months, five months, four months, three months, but as we’re looking at August, September, and October, we’re getting down now close to just three months. 

So what is the Trump strategy? 

What is the Iranian strategy? We know what the Iranian strategy is. The regime cares nothing for its own people, whether that’s the thousand or so collateral deaths through our and our allies’ bombing, and we know that they slaughtered somewhere between 40 and 50,000 of their own, and they don’t care. 

As long as they’re corrupt, rich, and in control, that’s all they care about. They have no problem being royals, monarchs, and lording over a nation of rubble.