Trump is fighting Iran with strategic clarity — and America is winning

Operation Epic Fury is the right war at the right time.

And, informed by Bush and Obama/Biden Administration failures, it is being fought in the right way.

Critics left and right make similar arguments: "Illegal war of choice," "unwinnable quagmire," "war makes the mullahs more extreme," and even "Trump is a Jewish puppet." These criticisms, and many who offer them, are detached from reality.

First, Epic Fury is a right and just war.

Since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has owed the American people a blood debt.

But until now American policymakers have generally failed to collect this debt much less effectively manage the regime's ongoing threat to U.S. interests, regional peace, and international economic stability.

This is partly due to the regime’s dangerous "revolutionary" Islamic supremist ideology that drives Iran’s aggression against the United States and Israel; justifies its brutal internal repression and foreign adventurism, including massive investments in the Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi, and Iraqi terrorist groups; and drives its development of advanced offensive ballistic missile, drone, and nuclear weapon capabilities.

A rational actor would not spend billions subsidizing terror tunnels and missiles in Gaza and Lebanon when its own citizens lack clean water and reliable electricity.

But the mullahs, like other "revolutionary" authoritarians, have different incentives.

IRAN IS NOT A NORMAL NATION YOU CAN MAKE DEALS WITH; IT’S A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT Second, Epic Fury was launched at a uniquely favorable time because the regime has never been weaker.

Historically, the mullahs relied on geography, oil revenue, and regional proxies for strategic deterrence.

U.S. and allied diplomatic and military options were constrained by the possibility that the regime could close the Strait of Hormuz and disrupt international oil supplies, and by the fact that the utility of our economic sanctions were cabined by the robust commercial demand for Iranian oil and the political influence of the nations and networks that moved Iranian money.

The Islamic Republic’s proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship in Syria shielded Iran from its regional foes.

DISTRESS CALL CAPTURES TANKER UNDER FIRE, IRAN SHUTS HORMUZ TRAPPING THOUSANDS OF SAILORS But President Trump’s American energy dominance policy and rejuvenated U.S. military have essentially rendered Iran’s geography and oil resources a strategic nullity.