Conrad Black: Middle East is on the brink of peace, thanks to Trump

Even after President Trump's televised address on Wednesday night, the obtuseness and antagonism of the Napoleonic military geniuses in much of the world's media think that the Iran War could be a quagmire and stalemate without a formal Iranian surrender. Trump repeated that his objectives are the permanent end of Iran's nuclear military ambitions and of its support of terrorism in much of the world. In furtherance of that he will strike them "very hard" for another month or so. This can only mean that he will, if necessary use amphibious or airborne forces to take over the distribution of Iran's oil, while destroying its power grid and closing its ports as tightly as its airspace. This is a logical conclusion of the war, in which the United States has incurred eight fatalities in combat and five others accidentally. Neither this small number nor the material cost of about $50 billion is onerous to the United States. Read More