Conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson drew a striking parallel between President Trump and Winston Churchill this week, framing Operation Epic Fury as the moment when one leader finally chose action over the empty promises that have defined American Iran policy for nearly half a century.
Speaking on FOX News, Hanson reminded viewers that Churchill spent years warning about the threat of fascism while the world ignored him. When war finally came, nobody called on him at first. But by May 1940, he became the voice in the wilderness, telling anyone who would listen that the enemy intended to consume the continent.
“That’s what Trump is trying to do,” Hanson said. “Trying to say to the American Democratic party, what’s left of it, you don’t understand what’s going on here. You Europeans don’t understand. You people in the Middle East don’t fully understand what this regime is about.”
The comparison cuts deep because it exposes a truth that Trump’s critics would rather ignore. For 47 years, Iran has operated through lying, disguise, and dissimulation. They have taken American hostages, blown up our barracks, attacked our embassy, and consistently acted with surprise and spontaneity that makes the concept of waiting for an “imminent threat” almost comically naive. Yet seven American presidents promised to deal with this problem, and seven presidents failed. Worse still, each one left office expressing regret that they had not acted when they had the chance.
Trump watched this pattern repeat and decided he would not become the eighth name on that list.
The resistance to this operation says more about partisan politics than it does about strategic wisdom. When Hanson notes that the only reason Democrats are not getting behind the effort is because they do not want Trump to have another victory, he is identifying something that has become impossible to deny. There are people in Washington who care more about denying this president a win than they do about American national security or peace in the Middle East.
The question that matters now is whether the world will listen before it is too late. Churchill’s warnings went unheeded until catastrophe forced the issue. Trump is attempting to break that cycle, to act before the cost becomes unbearable. History will judge whether this was wisdom or folly, but it cannot say that this president ignored the problem or left it for someone else to solve.
Source: Gateway Pundit
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