Col. Macgregor doesn’t buy into Netanyahu’s chest-thumping about the massive victory of the Battle of Tehran, and points out that if things were going as well as the Israelis have been proclaiming, they wouldn’t be crying about Tel Aviv coming in for a taste of the same medicine or pressuring everyone from Germany to the US military to get involved on their behalf.In the last 72 hours, Israel launched a preemptive strike against Iran when negotiations between Washington and Tehran were still ongoing. Iran was caught off-guard. But Iran recovered more quickly from its Pearl Harbor moment than Israel expected. In less than 18 hours after Israel’s surprise attack, Iran responded firing hundreds of ballistic missiles including hypersonic missiles into central Tel Aviv and across Israel. Meanwhile, Israel’s Iron Dome failed. Israeli intelligence failed. Now Netanyahu is pleading with Washington to intervene with American Military Power to rescue Israel from certain defeat; a defeat Netanyahu crafted with encouragement from Washington. At the same time, Russia, China, Pakistan and most of the Muslim World are rallying to Iran’s defense. Supplies, equipment and technical assistance are pouring into Iran. It’s time for a reality check: Washington burned through $12 trillion in the Middle East since 2003. Result? 7,000 dead Americans. 50,000 wounded, open borders and 100,000 Americans dying yearly from Fentanyl poisoning. Today, the United States is $37 trillion in debt, a sum that does not include so-called “agency debt.” 77 million Americans voted for President Trump because he promised to end the overseas conflicts and halt the march to WW3.The Middle East is on the brink. Here’s what Washington must do to defuse conflict: 1. Ask for an Emergency UN Security Council meeting. Ask for an Immediate ceasefire making it clear that Washington opposes the destruction of Iran, Israel and any other state in the Middle East. 2. Demand that Israel stop the killing of Palestinians in Gaza and withdraw its forces from Gaza and the West Bank. 3. Suspend all military aid to Israel until Israel agrees to remove its troops from Gaza and permit humanitarian assistance to reach the people of Gaza. 4. Propose the commitment of Armed Forces from non-aligned nations to police Gaza and the West Bank.5. Propose that the United States, Russia, China, India and Brazil convene a peace conference to arbitrate the dispute between Israel, Iran and Israel’s neighbors. Aside from not getting further involved in the Iran-Israel war, I totally disagree with Col. Macgregor’s recommendations and I don’t see what can be usefully expected from the UN or attempting to reason with the Israelis over Gaza. At best, this is belatedly attempting to put a Band-aid on a gushing artery.The best thing President Trump can do for the Middle East is to stop all military aid to everyone, then tell both the Israelis and the Iranians to go ahead and fight it out amongst themselves if that’s what they want. If that means a few glass parking lots in the Middle East, so what? Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities now.The optimal results are never achieved by putting off the inevitable. And if the USA is too weak to impose its will on the various parties now, things aren’t going to become any easier going forward. The one and only thing that absolutely must be avoided is going to war with Iran on Israel’s behalf, for as even the most ardent Christian Zionist must be able to understand, a collapsed USA can be of zero assistance to anyone.Indeed, I suspect seeing the US military enmesh itself in a war with Iran is the one course of action that would absolutely delight the long-term thinkers in the Chinese strategy rooms. Because there is obviously a lot going on behind the scenes that isn’t being intentionally advertised.DISCUSS ON SGThe post A Reality Check appeared first on Vox Popoli.