After striking Iran, Trump pulled the United States out of the “Iraq trauma”
The United States has emerged from the Iraq experience and ended the paralysis that accompanied it. This was achieved through its participation in the military strikes on Iran, demonstrating that US President Donald Trump has succeeded in extricating the United States from the trauma of the Iraq War, according to a report by the American website “The Daily Signal.”
The US website explained in its report, translated by Shafaq News Agency, that “by bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz, the United States has made the world safer in the long run. However, this reflects Washington’s recalibration of its foreign policy, which expresses Trump’s rejection of both the naivety of the “neoconservatives” and the shortsightedness of the isolationists.”
Despite the dismay of non-interventionists, the report said that Trump has become aware of the serious limitations of diplomacy with Islamists, noting that Tehran was granted decades to reach an agreement, but was more interested in acquiring a nuclear weapon. It added that “Trump also realized that diplomacy without red lines backed by force is useless, as Iran’s leaders, both hardliners and moderates, have for decades ignored their commitments without facing any consequences.”
The report stated that just because the United States was deceived about the extent of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program does not mean that other countries were not seeking to acquire these weapons. It noted that Iran was not hiding its intentions much, and that it is a country that has attacked Americans for 45 years. It pointed in this context to the scenes of American hostages in Iran, the bloody bombing in Beirut, and American soldiers killed or maimed by Iranian-made explosive devices.
He considered that “all of this should have been unacceptable, but the Iranians have made every American president since Bill Clinton a laughingstock regarding the nuclear issue.”
Therefore, the report considered that Trump has now realized that Iran is not Iraq, noting that there are no longer many who argue that our experience of imposing a democratic government on Islamic countries has failed, as neither Afghanistan nor Iraq have developed into anything resembling a free state . As for Iran , it “has never been a new social engineering project.”
According to the report, Trump’s clear goal with Iran is to prevent it from possessing nuclear weapons, adding that “our old ally (Israel) did the bulk of the work, significantly weakening Iran’s military capabilities, and then the United States completed the mission without American losses.”
He pointed out that the failure of nation-building projects by foreign powers has left many Americans pessimistic and panicky, noting the great panic Trump sparked when he declared that while it was politically incorrect to use the term “regime change,” “if the current Iranian regime can’t make Iran great again, why isn’t there a regime change??? Make Iran great again.”
The report ruled out the possibility that Trump meant the United States was considering installing a new government in Iran by force. He was likely trying to intimidate the Iranian regime into accepting a ceasefire, as invading Iran would have required a massive troop buildup and significant movements of military assets. There was no indication of such a plan, and no one had proposed it. Furthermore, there was no popular will to support it.
Although the report noted that the Israelis also spoke of “regime change,” it considered the incitement of panic and anxiety to be part of psychological warfare, as Israel faces an enemy that constantly threatens its existence, and it is only natural that it would attempt to destroy it.
The report continued, saying that it is natural for the United States to desire a less extremist and aggressive government in Iran, adding that “just because the Iraqis rejected our ideas does not mean that these ideas are not worthy of attention, or that we should not help those who genuinely embrace them.” It called for “not standing in the way of the Iranians if they have the means and ability to overthrow an authoritarian regime and establish a less destabilizing government, although that is unlikely.”
But he stressed that “most importantly, Trump understands that a superpower doesn’t act as if it’s afraid when threatened, but that others should be afraid of it.” He added that “it seems that the United States has forgotten its power after the failure of the Iraq War, which convinced an entire generation that even limited conflicts could push us toward a third world war,” noting that the United States “humiliated its enemy and deprived it of the opportunity to possess nuclear weapons.”
However, the US report concluded, “We have no idea how all this will end in the long term, but what we do know is that the United States is no longer paralyzed by the past.”
Shafaq.com