Time for Trump to step up and end the Iranian threat, once and for all
President Donald Trump vowed Iran won't get nukes. Now that Israel has started making that a reality, Trump must see it through — and rid the world of the Iranian threat, once and for all.
If Iran won't give up its nuke program — completely, quickly and verifiably — Trump shouldn't hesitate to use America's big, beautiful bunker-buster bombs to finish the job.
Israel has already made progress in de-nuking Iran, hitting its largest uranium-enrichment site, Natanz, and its Isfahan facility, and wiping out many of the regime's top nuclear scientists and military leaders.
Yet at least one key site, the Fordow facility deep beneath a mountain, remains intact: The Israeli Air Force lacks the heavy bunker-buster bombs that readily take it out.
Maybe weeks of smaller bombs can do the job, but that means prolonged hostilities, causing much needless damage to both countries, to achieve what Trump says is a must.
And, yes, Tehran is reportedly signaling it'll resume nuclear talks if the United States stays out of the fighting.
Fine: Except Iran treated Trump's 60-day deadline for those talks as a joke; now its opening offer should include handing over all its enriched uranium, with every last nuclear site and research facility demolished.
Also, inspectors must have free rein to verify that Iran can never again resume its nuclear-weapons agenda.
Absent those concessions, any talks would be just another effort to buy time and/or somehow sell Team Trump the Brooklyn Bridge.
Bring on the bunker busters: Yes, it entails some risks — though the Israelis have already pretty well defanged Tehran and its chief proxies.
As for the characters who think they define MAGA and 'America First': The prez has already shown he's not buying it.
Saturday, he stressed that he's the one to decide what's in America's best interests, and 'you can't have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon.' Hear, hear.
Besides, that crowd's fearful warnings — that 'thousands of Americans would die' if Israel moved against Iran — have already proved false.
Eliminating Iran's nuclear threat will send the perfect message to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping: Take Trump's words seriously; don't bet on the 'TACO' twerps.
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