Newspaper Reader excumes the remaines of the Strausian Political Mythology, via Stephens toxic political refraction.
Mar 01, 2026
Headline: Trump and Netanyahu Are Doing the Free World a Favor
Editor: Stephens applys both soothing and reviling tones to his critics
President Trump is being criticized from many quarters for his decision to join Israel in a war to topple the Iranian regime, which on Saturday yielded the killing of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The reasons vary.
It’s “a betrayal of the American people,” says Elizabeth Warren, who warns that the intervention risks dragging “yet another generation into a forever war.” It’s a betrayal of MAGA principles, says Marjorie Taylor Greene, who denounced Trump for putting “America last.” It’s unconstitutional, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, because it’s being conducted without authorization from Congress. It’s unnecessary, according to the writer Andrew Sullivan, who (quoting me, albeit misleadingly) thinks that Iran isn’t much of a threat and the war is being waged for Israel’s sake.
Editor: notice that Stephens becomes the victim of these toxic actors, its victimology is varian tones!
And so on. But one country where the United States and Israel are garnering broad support is the same country that’s being bombed.
Editor: What might a reader, listener, viewer make of the two reports not from Zionist Front Man Bret Stephens?
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Editor: The next 696 words of Stephens self-serving political chatter, makes way for self-adutatory chatter, featuring himself as thinket, writer, expert, not to speak of his singular attachment to the Genocidal State of Israel!
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The United States is stronger when anti-American dictators have solid reasons to fear our wrath: It restores deterrence and, in doing so, makes diplomacy more effective. Israel and the Arab world are safer when Iran is weaker: Notice that, at least so far, Hezbollah, fearing for its position in Lebanon, has not joined the war against Israel. Finally, even if the regime doesn’t fall, it will be under heavy internal pressure to modify its behavior as a pragmatic concession to reality, much as Venezuela has under Delcy Rodríguez, its (hopefully) interim president.
That may not be the optimal outcome. But it’s considerably better than what came before.
Finally, the United States and Israel have taken considerable military and political risks to do the right thing. And that’s no small thing.
They have rid the world of an odious tyrant, and of several layers of his equally odious deputies. It’s odd that the same people who fault Trump for divorcing U.S. foreign policy from its democratic values now fault him for going to war for the sake of advancing democratic values. Still, millions of ordinary people around the world — not just in Tel Aviv or Tehran or Tehrangeles but also, perhaps, in Taipei and Tallinn — will notice that the United States, for its many warts, still stands for freedom.
My column has never been shy about denouncing either Trump or Netanyahu. It won’t be shy to criticize them in the future. But on Saturday this much-maligned duo did the free world a courageous and historic favor. It will be remembered long after the petulant criticism dies down.
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