JEFF CHILDERS<\/p>\n
Remember\u2014 the kinetic phase of the entire Iran \u201cwar\u201d was compressed into the 60-day limit of the War Powers Act. It\u2019s the opposite of an endless war. I\u2019ll bet Michelle\u2019s Tahoe that, sometime soon, corporate media experts will start complaining that it was never a \u201creal\u201d war to begin with. Sigh.<\/p>\n
Apart from President Trump\u2019s vague description, we don\u2019t yet know any specific terms of \u201cthe Deal.\u201d Democrats and the media, which so far have tried to characterize one of the shortest wars in human history as a \u201cforever war,\u201d are preparing to pivot to complaining that \u201cTrump\u2019s peace deal isn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n
You could make a very strong argument that the deal\u2019s terms are irrelevant. They are just the candles on America\u2019s birthday cake. After only two months of fighting from the air, and with fewer casualties than Joe Biden racked up just in his catastrophic scramble to flee Afghanistan or in one drone assault against a Syrian base, Iran has been disciplined, its neighbors stand with America against it, and both its economy and its war aims have been set back 20 years, at least.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the world\u2019s global energy flows have been permanently restructured in America\u2019s favor. OPEC\u2019s monopoly \u2014a thorn in our collective sides for our entire lives\u2014 has been broken and become a spent force. And now, this. Headline from Seeking Alpha, four days ago:<\/p>\n
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