OPINION_ Why Trump’s Iran Strategy Isn’t a ‘Forever War’—It’s Deterrence (Victor Davis Hanson - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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Why Trump’s Iran Strategy Isn’t a ‘Forever War’—It’s Deterrence

A person points at a page on the Marinetraffic website that shows commercial boats traffic on the edge of the Strait of Hormuz near the Iranian coast on March 4, 2026. Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images

Victor Davis Hanson
4/3/2026|Updated: 4/3/2026


This is a lightly edited transcript of a April 1st segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast from The Daily Signal.

There’s always two wars, as I mentioned on earlier occasions, a political war and a military war, once the conflict begins. But I didn’t discuss really what the political war is about. President Donald Trump can easily decimate Iran. He can knock out the water, he can knock out the sewage facilities, the power grid, the communications grid, and paralyze the entire country.

And that might even lead to the removal of the regime. But he is not doing that for political reasons. No. 1, he would get global outrage from even our allies, and that is a restraining influence. But more importantly, he wants to empower the Iranian resistance movement, and they need all of that infrastructure if someday they were going to come to power.

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