Trump learned the lessons of Iraq

Published June 24, 2025 2:00pm ET



As the Israelis and Iranians enter a wobbly ceasefire agreement, we know one thing for sure: President Donald Trump has moved the United States past the traumas of the Iraq War, even as his foreign policy critics are still mired in them. 

With the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz, the U.S. made the world a safer place in the long run. But the attack also reset American foreign policy as the president rejected both the naivety of neoconservatism and the shortsightedness of isolationism. 

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