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According to President Trump’s critics, there is no reason why America is involved in a war against the terrorist regime in Iran. According to America’s enemies, the US is, in fact, losing the war.
That is the claim of Vladimir Putin’s favorite “thinker,” Alexander Dugin, who has recently become popular on a fringe of the American right. Dugin this week said that this war shows that the US can be defeated and that “Iran has already made the huge service to humanity. Nobody will ever fear the US as before.” It is hard to think of a claim more divorced from reality.
Yet a bizarre array of characters at home and abroad are repeating this nonsense.
That is one reason why the president’s address to the nation on Wednesday night was so important. Because amid all the chatter and bad-takes it was important to reassert some fundamental truths.
The first is something so obvious that it was once agreed on across the political aisle. That is that the world’s foremost sponsor of terror — the Iranian Revolutionary Government — should never be allowed nuclear weapons.
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Douglas Murray is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.