Trump’s deal with Iran is awful. But what’s the alternative?

President Donald Trump has long complained that “we don’t win wars anymore,” a problem he has blamed on “wokeness” and “political correctness.” Last year, he set out to do something about it by rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War. His secretary, Pete Hegseth, eagerly supported the change, contending that the department would “fight to win” and wage war with “maximum lethality, not tepid legality.”

How’s that going? The president just concluded a war with Iran, and the only people who think the United States won are on the administration’s payroll. Even some of them probably harbor secret doubts. That may be why Secretary of State Marco Rubio is letting Vice President JD Vance take the lead in selling this dog’s breakfast.

Trump’s first-term vice president, Mike Pence, denounced the memorandum of understanding with Iran as “appeasement.” His former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley called it a “huge mistake.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said that “giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea.”

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