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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/opinion/trump-netanyahu-iran-free-world.html
Trump and Netanyahu Are Doing the Free World a Favor
(New York Times) Bret Stephens - There was a time when free nations, having endured years of provocations and attacks from tyrants, banded together to administer justice and supply hope. It's a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the U.S. since 1979 when it seized our embassy, murdered (via proxy) hundreds of our service members in Beirut in 1983, and supplied the roadside bombs that killed or maimed over 1,000 of our troops during the war in Iraq. One reason Iran behaved as it did is because it drew the lesson that it would pay no great price. No more. Tehran began reconstituting its nuclear capabilities while rapidly rebuilding the missile force that is now terrorizing civilians in Tel Aviv, Dubai, Manama and Riyadh, and targeting U.S. military assets in the region. Would the U.S., the Arab world, or Israel have been safer if we had waited a year or two for Iran to build several thousand more missiles? Moreover, it is impossible to imagine anything like Mideast peace without the end of this regime. The U.S. and Israel have taken considerable military and political risks to do the right thing. They have rid the world of an odious tyrant, and of several layers of his equally odious deputies. Millions of ordinary people around the world will notice that the U.S. still stands for freedom. On Saturday, Trump and Netanyahu did the Free World a courageous and historic favor.