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Source: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/war-iran-winners-donald-trump
Who Wants This War?
(Tablet) Lee Smith - Some say Trump and America are being led to war by Israel. Others don't understand why Iran is so important. Iran has been waging a war against Americans, U.S. interests, and allies for nearly five decades, and no other American leader before Trump had the courage to stand up against that. Shortly after the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, career U.S. diplomat George Kennan told a Senate committee that the U.S. should declare war on the Islamic Republic. Iranian officials, he said, should be interned and released only in exchange for the Americans held by the revolutionary regime. The idea that Trump himself only lately started to worry about Iran's war on America is not true. In an October 1980 interview, Trump said of Iran: "That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages, to my way of thinking, is a horror." Since then, Trump has made numerous, well-documented statements about Iran, its nuclear weapons program, and the war it's been waging on America since 1979. Here's a president who means not only to dismantle Iran's threat to Americans but also to avenge the many thousands of Americans kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the Iranians in the past five decades. It's inspiring to see a commander-in-chief picking up the gauntlet for the purpose of killing terrorists who target Americans.