Be Glad Trump Humped Nuclear Proliferation

Letter to Ephesians: Talk about twisted logic. Somehow it’s been suggested Iran’s “Death to America” regime should have been trusted with an A-bomb program as “diplomacy” to end it dragged on forever, while Pres Trump is a war monger for bombing Iran’s nuke ambition ala communist North Korea. Huh?

WSJ’s Holman Jenkins was left scratching his head as well in “New Life for Nonproliferation.” He argues No. 47 should be heaped with praise for his decision to take out Iran’s A-bomb factories because the 12-day Iran & Israel war seems to have suddenly come to a screeching pause if not halt. Holman opines, “If so, Donald Trump the Peacemaker may have ended not only the war but Iran’s nuclear threat. Garlands would descend upon his shoulders from the fair-minded. That’ll be nice for him. The bigger payoff could come when he’s long retired & only if future US leaders & allies are as determined as Trump seems to be in cutting off the rise of nuclear rogue states.” In fact, Holman concluded, “In a better world, [Trump’s] B-2's next stop would be Pyongyang.”

Ah, but that’s not how many American progressives like President Obama & his Dty National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes, see it. As Big Ben explained in a recent tweet: “Trump’s message to the world: if you have nukes like North Korea I’ll trade love letters with you, if you don’t I’ll pull out of agreements you’re keeping & bomb you during diplomacy.” Holman's reaction: “Good heavens. North Korea had the bomb & the means to deliver it thanks to the ineffective diplomacy of the Clinton & George W. Bush administrations. That’s exactly what we’re trying to avoid with Iran. And Mr. Trump is following the same path now he followed then, offering friendship but zero compromise on giving up their nukes.”

Davd Soul