Ed Morrissey: Ending Iran's 47-Year War is America First

For 47 years, the radical Islamist terrorists running Iran have conducted multiple acts of war against the United States. The regime abducted our diplomats in 1979 and kept them hostage for 444 days. Their proxy terror network Hezbollah killed more than 240 Marines in Beirut, and kidnapped Americans throughout the 1980s. Iran and its Shi’ite militias targeted and killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq while wounding thousands more.

This weekend, Donald Trump finally addressed this long war by responding to it with overwhelming force.

Some Americans wonder how this fits with Trump’s “America First” strategy—claiming Trump has gone to war to protect Israel.

Make no mistake: This fits America First. It puts American interests ahead of European appeasers that spent decades restraining the US from a proper response to Iran’s acts of war. It will fully re-establish America as the first among nations—the superpower that, once again, does not fear to protect its interests.

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