Trump needs his own surge in Iran after midterm ‘thumpin'’

President Donald Trump ought to hammer Iran tomorrow. He has been waiting for the political season to end, and he ought to wait no more.

Two months after the 2006 midterm elections — a vote which President George W. Bush called a “thumpin’” for the Republicans — “W” announced his Iraq troop surge. On Jan. 10, 2007, in a nationally televised address from the Library Room in the White House, Bush made it clear he would not order the U.S. to turn and run from that battle. It was the finest hour of his second term, demonstrating the courage of his conviction that the United States had to subdue the insurgency in Iraq.