OPINION:
With the American people showing their disillusionment with President Trump through sagging poll numbers because of the Iran war and the inflation it’s causing, I would like to go against the grain and thank the president for his leadership. He is trying to bring this war to a close with as few deaths and as little damage as possible.
“This is peanuts,” he said recently of Americans’ financial woes owing to the war, and he’s right.
In 2001, Mr. Trump visited the smoldering ruins of Ground Zero with a construction crew, looking to help dig out possible survivors in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack on American soil.
What people don’t realize here is that regardless of how this war ends — either peacefully or with Iran’s infrastructure obliterated — Mr. Trump has exhausted every avenue toward peace. The outcome of this conflict in eliminating the Iranian threat will certainly go down as a foreign policy triumph comparable to the Reagan/Bush era and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Iran’s leadership is clearly mentally unhinged. With a defanged Iran, on behalf of my future descendants who will not have to live with this constant threat and foreign policy migraine, I would like to thank the president. He is enduring shortsighted criticism while seeing this through.
Agree with him or not, President Trump is demonstrating that he learned the bitter lesson of 9/11 that fateful day 25 years ago: We must address foreign threats before they metastasize on our shores. And enduring temporary high gas prices that affect his popularity is, indeed, “peanuts” to pay.
EUGENE R. DUNN
Glen Burnie, Maryland
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