Nuclear

President Trump is considering a limited military strike to pressure Iran into nuclear negotiations. This is not recklessness, it's the only language Tehran has responded to in four decades. Diplomacy without deterrence is a telegram to a government that doesn't use email.

Congress is debating a $14.3 billion supplemental to fund Trump's Iran strike campaign, but independent analysts put the true first-year cost closer to $21 billion. Refusing to fully fund this fight won't end it. It will hand Tehran the victory on a payment plan.

The ceasefire fantasy is collapsing in real time. Iran has never wanted peace, it wants survival on its own terms. That's not negotiable.

Trump says he's not ready to declare victory on Iran. Good. The graveyard of American foreign policy is littered with premature end zones.

While critics demand endless diplomatic theater, Trump's pressure campaign against Iran has achieved more in months than a decade of nuclear deals failed to produce.