The midterm elections are fast approaching.
Trump’s Presidency is facing a fork in the road.
And now a Fox News legend begged Donald Trump to take this massive risk.
President Trump rolled the dice on the biggest gamble of his political career when he launched the war with Iran.
Trump built his political movement in part on his opposition to the endless regime wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When Trump went to war with Iran, he pledged to the American people that he would end the war quickly and with a decisive victory.
America’s military demolished Iran’s military capabilities and degraded its nuclear programs.
Polls show the war is dropping in popularity as oil prices rise.
Trump also reportedly wants to keep his promise and end the war in the next two weeks, as he’s declared Iran defeated and the war won.
But neoconservative warhawks in Washington and the media are trying to pressure Trump into committing to a longer war.
One of those voices is Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume, who told host Martha MacCallum that Trump needed to “finish the mission” in Iran by continuing the war until America toppled the Iranian regime.
“Well, look, I don’t think it’s time to get out. I think it’s time to finish the mission,” Hume began. “You know, we’ve made, obviously, tremendous progress as measured by the number of targets hit and all the rest of it, and Iranian losses have been truly staggering!”
Hume admitted that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan flew off the rails when America decided on regime change and nation-building as opposed to disarming and defeating dictators.
However, Hume showed that, unlike Trump, he didn’t learn the lessons of those conflicts and demanded that Trump extend the war indefinitely.
“But this is not entirely new, in a sense, Martha, in the conflicts that we mentioned earlier — Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq twice, really, and Afghanistan — our military mission, our early military mission in particular, was accomplished. We defeated the Taliban in Afghanistan pretty quickly. We killed Saddam Hussein, we killed Osama bin Laden. And the first Gulf War was an absolute walkover. The tricky part gets to be when the mission, the military piece of it, the early piece of it, is accomplished. What next?” Hume continued.
Hume praised the military’s success in decimating Iran’s Navy, Air Force, ballistic missile, and nuclear program and said Trump should use that as the jumping-off point for a longer regime change war.
“And that, of course, is a situation that is to some extent controlled by how much of the military mission is successful. In this case, I think, you know, the enemy can be greatly diminished, if not eliminated, and that might be enough because Iran was such a threat to the region. And Martha, think of it this way,” Hume added.
“Did anybody ever imagine when we’d hit 10,000 targets or whatever it is, that there’d still be more to do? It shows you how utterly militarized the country of Iran has been. And the fact that there’s still more to do tells you more about that. So I think that’s where we are. Our military mission is not yet complete, and the kind of end-stage activities, opening up the Strait of Hormuz and the rest of it, will have to wait for a while, I think,” Hume concluded.
George Bush’s fighting an endless regime change war in the Middle East led to Democrats sweeping the 2006 and 2008 elections.
Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama seized power as a result.
President Trump understands this, which is why he promised a quick war that ended in victory.
Longtime Iran hawks like Hume are pushing Trump to push the envelope further.
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