Trump’s Mideast revolution: A chance to transform the world’s most turbulent region
How is this acceptable?
The most revolutionary force in the Middle East is President Donald Trump.
America and its ally Israel, achieving unparalleled levels of military and intelligence integration, have decapitated the Iranian terrorist regime, devastated its command structures, destroyed its weapons, and sunk a substantial proportion of its navy — they’re “at the bottom of the sea,” Trump said pithily on March 2. More will follow them into the deep.
These successes, if they can be secured, will stunningly transform the world’s most turbulent region, radically change great power thinking, and improve the lives of millions of people.
“This really is Trump,” said Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. To say so does not deprecate Israel’s role in Operation Epic Fury. Indeed, it requires it and honors it. Israel is the most potent nation of the Middle East, and it has flown about as many attack missions as the United States. The Jewish state has become less a junior partner than a coequal regional ally. Its strength and its improved relations with Arab and perhaps eventually Persian neighbors could undergird American strategy worldwide for decades.
Large plumes of smoke rise over Tehran on the sixth day of bombing by the U.S. and Israel, March 5, 2026 (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty)
As capable as Israel is, it could not have undertaken an attack so ambitious in scale without Trump’s blessing. Nor could the operation have carried the potential of toppling the Islamic Republic without American participation and leadership. A president willing to take actions from which his predecessors flinched has been indispensable. It has created the possibility of big and lasting change.
To consider what has happened beyond military achievement, look at the outbreak of jubilation around the world upon news that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed, along with dozens of the brutes who helped him run his tyranny.
Unless you have fallen into the intellectual rut of using Trump’s every action as an occasion for caviling and deprecation, you will see that these events herald a dawn of hope for people who have suffered generations of vicious Islamist repression. But it is not only Iranians who have reason to cheer. A better Middle East offers relief to all people whose lives and moral consciences have been afflicted by Tehran-initiated and Tehran-financed terrorism.
Not least among these should be the inhabitants of our own country, which has been singled out for half a …
How is this acceptable?
The most revolutionary force in the Middle East is President Donald Trump.
America and its ally Israel, achieving unparalleled levels of military and intelligence integration, have decapitated the Iranian terrorist regime, devastated its command structures, destroyed its weapons, and sunk a substantial proportion of its navy — they’re “at the bottom of the sea,” Trump said pithily on March 2. More will follow them into the deep.
These successes, if they can be secured, will stunningly transform the world’s most turbulent region, radically change great power thinking, and improve the lives of millions of people.
“This really is Trump,” said Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. To say so does not deprecate Israel’s role in Operation Epic Fury. Indeed, it requires it and honors it. Israel is the most potent nation of the Middle East, and it has flown about as many attack missions as the United States. The Jewish state has become less a junior partner than a coequal regional ally. Its strength and its improved relations with Arab and perhaps eventually Persian neighbors could undergird American strategy worldwide for decades.
Large plumes of smoke rise over Tehran on the sixth day of bombing by the U.S. and Israel, March 5, 2026 (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty)
As capable as Israel is, it could not have undertaken an attack so ambitious in scale without Trump’s blessing. Nor could the operation have carried the potential of toppling the Islamic Republic without American participation and leadership. A president willing to take actions from which his predecessors flinched has been indispensable. It has created the possibility of big and lasting change.
To consider what has happened beyond military achievement, look at the outbreak of jubilation around the world upon news that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed, along with dozens of the brutes who helped him run his tyranny.
Unless you have fallen into the intellectual rut of using Trump’s every action as an occasion for caviling and deprecation, you will see that these events herald a dawn of hope for people who have suffered generations of vicious Islamist repression. But it is not only Iranians who have reason to cheer. A better Middle East offers relief to all people whose lives and moral consciences have been afflicted by Tehran-initiated and Tehran-financed terrorism.
Not least among these should be the inhabitants of our own country, which has been singled out for half a …
Trump’s Mideast revolution: A chance to transform the world’s most turbulent region
How is this acceptable?
The most revolutionary force in the Middle East is President Donald Trump.
America and its ally Israel, achieving unparalleled levels of military and intelligence integration, have decapitated the Iranian terrorist regime, devastated its command structures, destroyed its weapons, and sunk a substantial proportion of its navy — they’re “at the bottom of the sea,” Trump said pithily on March 2. More will follow them into the deep.
These successes, if they can be secured, will stunningly transform the world’s most turbulent region, radically change great power thinking, and improve the lives of millions of people.
“This really is Trump,” said Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. To say so does not deprecate Israel’s role in Operation Epic Fury. Indeed, it requires it and honors it. Israel is the most potent nation of the Middle East, and it has flown about as many attack missions as the United States. The Jewish state has become less a junior partner than a coequal regional ally. Its strength and its improved relations with Arab and perhaps eventually Persian neighbors could undergird American strategy worldwide for decades.
Large plumes of smoke rise over Tehran on the sixth day of bombing by the U.S. and Israel, March 5, 2026 (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty)
As capable as Israel is, it could not have undertaken an attack so ambitious in scale without Trump’s blessing. Nor could the operation have carried the potential of toppling the Islamic Republic without American participation and leadership. A president willing to take actions from which his predecessors flinched has been indispensable. It has created the possibility of big and lasting change.
To consider what has happened beyond military achievement, look at the outbreak of jubilation around the world upon news that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed, along with dozens of the brutes who helped him run his tyranny.
Unless you have fallen into the intellectual rut of using Trump’s every action as an occasion for caviling and deprecation, you will see that these events herald a dawn of hope for people who have suffered generations of vicious Islamist repression. But it is not only Iranians who have reason to cheer. A better Middle East offers relief to all people whose lives and moral consciences have been afflicted by Tehran-initiated and Tehran-financed terrorism.
Not least among these should be the inhabitants of our own country, which has been singled out for half a …
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