Like many disaffected establishment Republicans, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who recently placed third in the primary for his Senate seat, is critical of the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran conflict:
“This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades,” the senator wrote on X, adding,
Reagan is rolling over in his grave. Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal.
Those who, like Cassidy, demand a harder line from the administration in bringing the Iran conflict to a close have a poor understanding of our current geopolitical reality—perhaps because they have played a role in creating it. Negotiating without sufficient leverage is called begging. Now that we’ve paid the steep tuition charged at the School of Hard Knocks, we should carefully examine the events that brought us to our current position.
True, the deal is not ideal, but we do not live in an ideal world. As things transpired, the president was left with two choices: escalate to a ground war or seek an expensive peace with the Iranians. Those unhappy with the expensive peace should be asking themselves the following questions:
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