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Trump needs to get ready for blowback

National Columnists

It is a special kind of folly to make long-term predictions amid the fog of war. Nobody knows how Operation Epic Fury will end. But there are already a few things we can celebrate and condemn. On the celebration side: The professionalism and courage of the American military stand out. So does the just demise of Ayatollah Khamenei, amid scores of his murderous henchmen. Other things worth celebrating are merely possibilities at this point. If the nearly half-century of Iranian repression at home and terrorism abroad is poised to end, along with Iran's nuclear ambitions, that would be ...

What history demands we remember

National Columnists

These are no longer theoretical debates confined to policy forums. The conflict is widening. American servicemen have now been lost. Regional nations are absorbing casualties. Retaliation cycles are accelerating. What once appeared contained now carries the unmistakable risk of broader regional war. Here is the reality: Iran has long advanced its nuclear program, and the international community has repeatedly warned that enrichment capability could move beyond peaceful energy into weapons potential. International inspectors have acknowledged they cannot fully verify all aspects ...

Iran's last hope is American division

National Columnists

The United States is winning. Anyone telling you otherwise is either mistaken — or rooting for a different outcome. That may sound blunt. But it happens to be true. The Iranian regime's best remaining strategy is not military. It is political. Tehran is not counting on its air defenses, which are being shredded. It is not counting on its ballistic missile program, which has been systematically dismantled. It is not counting on its nuclear infrastructure, which is being methodically degraded. It is counting on Americans. More specifically, it is counting ...

America is doing what must be done in Iran

National Columnists

Following rounds of missile attacks from Iran on Israel, a warhead from one of the missiles was found just hundreds of yards from Jerusalem's Old City. A few hundred yards' difference could have meant the destruction of one or more of the holiest sites of the three major religions — the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, site of the crucifixion of Jesus; the Temple Mount, site of the Holy Temple of the Jews; and the al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites. The Iranian maniacs are prepared to destroy even one of their own holiest sites in pursuit of their insane ...

Don't let Congress ruin college sports

National Columnists

Should the revenues made by big-time college athletics be "shared" by all the schools? Do we want "revenue-sharing" socialism to come to college football and basketball? Many in Congress are answering yes to that question. The NCAA isn't the massive moneymaker the NFL and NBA are, but in many ways the product is more exciting than the boring professional leagues. That's especially true in this month of March, when the hoops madness begins. Even with the new "pay-to-play" rules that have turned college football and basketball into semipro leagues, with some of the star ...

Missile defense should have bipartisan consensus

National Columnists

We officially live in the age of missile defense. The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has been the showcase for missile-defense systems — interceptors, radars, and complex command and control — that are extremely robust and have largely defanged Iran's foremost military threat to Israel, U.S. forces and other countries around the region. If it weren't for these defensive systems, the U.S. and Israel probably wouldn't have dared launch this military campaign, or at the very least would have done it knowing Iran could exact an enormous cost on the Israeli population and U.S. ...