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The editorial board at the staunchly conservative magazine The National Review<\/u> has made a bold statement on President Donald Trump\u2019s war with Iran, comparing the outcome to that of the Vietnam War \u2014 which was famously among the United States\u2019 most terrible military debacles. <\/p>\n

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The Review\u2019s comparison was inspired by a statement by Vietnam War-era State Department official John Negroponte, who, following Richard Nixon\u2019s murderous 1972 Christmas bombing campaign, declared, \u201cWe bombed them into accepting our concessions.\u201d In other words, regardless of all the bombs dropped, it was the U.S. that ended up yielding. <\/p>\n

\u201cA similar verdict,\u201d asserted the Review, \u201cseems appropriate for President Trump\u2019s war on Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the outlet\u2019s editors, \u201cThe memorandum of understanding that both parties are signing is lopsided in Iran\u2019s favor. The main concession from the Iranians is reopening the Strait of Hormuz, but the commercial artery won\u2019t be returning to the status quo ante. The memorandum says that Tehran will not charge fees \u2018for 60 days,\u2019 implying that Iran will begin extracting tolls thereafter. In exchange, the U.S. is lifting its blockade on Iranian ports and agreeing to let the Iranians sell oil, a source of revenue totaling tens of billions of dollars a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just the beginning of the Review\u2019s list of grievances toward the agreement. The editors decry that it will unfreeze Iranian assets to the tune of $24 billion, wondering \u201chow many proverbial pallets will be needed to deliver this cash windfall to Iran\u201d \u2014 a snarky reference to Trump\u2019s 2015 campaign accusation that President Obama had sent \u201cpallets of cash\u201d to Iran as part of his nuclear deal. As the Review points out, Trump\u2019s deal also floats the idea of lifting all sanctions and provides Iran with a $300 investment fund. <\/p>\n

The editors also took issue with Trump\u2019s handling of the nuclear question, explaining, \u201cIn a lamentable press availability at the G-7 summit, President Trump explicitly said Iran should be able to enrich at low levels. This, coupled with Trump\u2019s consistently dismissive remarks about obtaining Iran\u2019s nuclear \u2018dust,\u2019 suggests that Iran won\u2019t give up enrichment or hand over its uranium, both of which have long been considered key benchmarks for setting back Iran\u2019s program.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMeanwhile,\u201d notes the Review, \u201cthere is no reference to Iran\u2019s missiles, even though ending Iran\u2019s missile threat was originally one of the U.S. war aims. At his presser, Trump pooh-poohed constraining Iran\u2019s missile arsenal, arguing \u2014 incredibly enough \u2014 that any individual missile strike only causes limited damage. There\u2019s similarly no direct mention of Iran\u2019s support for regional proxies; that Obama\u2019s JCPOA didn\u2019t address this, either, was supposed to be one of the main criticisms of it. Finally, the memorandum says the conflict will also end in Lebanon, an Iranian ploy to protect Hezbollah and drive a wedge between the U.S. and Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

These poor outcomes, assert the editors, arose because Trump\u2019s \u201cconception of the war was beset by a lack of realism and reckless optimism.\u201d He overestimated what the death of the previous Ayatollah Khamenei would mean for the conflict, and didn\u2019t take expert warnings about the risks regarding Hormuz seriously. He also failed to obtain congressional authorization, and \u201cdid almost nothing to make the public case for it beforehand. Thus, there was no reservoir of political support to fall back on when things didn\u2019t go as he had hoped. His seat-of-pants governance and executive high-handedness bear much responsibility for the unsatisfactory outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, \u201cthe Iranian regime is living to fight another day with greater control over the strait and significant financial relief.\u201d What\u2019s more, \u201cTrump has dropped all talk of the Iranian people taking back their country, when his assurances that \u2018help is on its way\u2019 during last year\u2019s street protests helped create the predicate for Operation Epic Fury.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Review\u2019s conclusion is anything but positive. As the editors note, \u201cTrump has said in the past that Iran has never won a war, yet never lost a negotiation. As the president and his administration now make the case for a memorandum of understanding that doesn\u2019t meet any U.S. strategic objective, it\u2019s impossible to say he was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

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