The Fickle Friend

Donald Trump said Syria would do better overseeing Lebanon than Israel. The leader of Syria is a literal head-chopping terrorist who has changed out of jihadi garments into Western suits. A conscienceless murderer is still a threat even if his new outfit was tailored on Savile Row. Iran cannot be trusted, nor Damascus, not Qatar either, and Pakistan who hosted the negotiations between the Islamic Republic and America had to know or certainly should have known they were hosting Osama bin Laden a few blocks from their version of West Point. None of the so-called interlocutors Trump has been dealing with is trustworthy or actually seeking peace. The one truth I must shout from the rooftops is every Muslim nation America was employing to "resolve" the Iran crisis actually wants to see Israel erased as a Jewish state. Nations do not have friends but only interests, and while it is manifestly in Trump's interest to declare victory and go home where the GOP will have more of a chance at preserving Republican majorities in both houses of Congress; Israel must not stop defending the tiny beleaguered democracy from all the bloodthirsty tyrants that surround it.