Comment by gip
3 hours ago
I didn't vote for him but you’ve got to give it to Trump. Where past US presidents’ foreign policy (wars: Afghanistan, Iraq; diplomacy: Iran under Obama, and so on) didn't go anywhere, Trump gets results.
Now, these results may lead to unintended consequences in the future. But today, a murderer is dead.
So are 80 schoolchidren at a primary school
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/children-dead-...
The murderers are the people committing murders. That the victim was himself a ruthless tyrant doesn't change the fact that this is intolerable. The US can't be the only one allowed to bend the rules.
Don't come crying around when the next 9/11 inevitably happens.
Obama literally signed a deal with Iran to constrain their nuclear program, and Trump ripped it up in his first term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...
Was the bottleneck in these situations really the US' willingness to kill or capture world leaders?
Iran used that money to fund Hamas and Hezbollah. Pretty much everyone agrees it was a bad idea.
In hindsight, from the perspective of the Middle East and Arab world in general: Obama’s tenure was a geopolitical nightmare, while under Trump’s first presidency the Middle East made a big step forward with the Abraham Accords.