United States can make strategic advances in the region, using both meaningful incentives and credible threats.
How can the United States take advantage of the great but tricky strategic opportunity that the fall of Bashar Assad’s tyranny in Damascus offers us? Mainly through a combination of meaningful incentives for, and credible threats against, our enemies, frenemies, allies and would-be friends. Let’s go down the list.
How? The legal basis is full application of the U.N. Security Council’s Resolution 1701, which insists “there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese state.” Hezbollah has brazenly flouted the demand for 18 years. Donald Trump can help enforce it by declaring in one of his social media posts that he will not consider Israel bound to honor its ceasefire deal with Hezbollah until the group fully disarms.
As for the next Trump administration, it should present Iran with a choice — and a dare. The choice, to put it in the colloquial Trumpese, would go something like this: “IF IRAN’S EVIL LEADERS GO FOR NUKES, WE WILL GO AFTER THEM!” That is, the regime will put its own existence at risk if it attempts to dash toward a bomb. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, fresh from his many losses, will get the point.
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