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The U.S. Is Finally Responding Decisively to Decades of Aggression
(Wall Street Journal) Prof. Eugene Kontorovich - President Trump campaigned on ending "forever wars." The current operation fulfills that promise by finally responding decisively to decades of aggression against America and its allies. The Constitution doesn't forbid launching a surprise attack on a rare meeting of the enemy high command. The U.S. attacks have a clear legal and practical justification. Iran has sponsored numerous lethal attacks on U.S. troops throughout the Middle East. Its proxies have attacked international shipping and funneled drugs to America. In recent years, Tehran tried to assassinate former President Trump and former senior officials from his first administration. This isn't a war to protect Israel, which has done an excellent job of protecting itself. For the first time, the U.S. and Israel are fighting side by side. While America's other major allies decided to sit this one out - and even deny the use of air bases on their soil - Israel has proved itself a peer partner that makes it possible for America to achieve its strategic goals at far less risk to its own forces. The writer is a professor at the George Mason University Law School and a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.