Trump faced a problem in taming Iran’s nuclear ambitions: He had promised to avoid U.S. involvement in what he derisively called “endless wars” and now he faced the need, once again, to project American power abroad.

To do so, he played a double game: Negotiate with Iran and lead its rulers to believe they had flummoxed the United States once again — just as they had conned Obama and Biden. But, this time, it was Trump who played the fox, inducing Iran to lower its guard while our ally, Israel, was preparing a potentially lethal blow.

By letting Israel do the heavy lifting, Trump has his cake and can eat it too. He can accomplish his goal of denying Iran the ultimate weapon while avoiding another “endless war.”

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