Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 4, 2026. REUTERS The Issue: President Trump’s diplomatic and economic strategies in Iran as his cease-fire continues.
The Post’s editorial should be the rallying cry for the Trump team (“Finish the Iran War,” May 2).
History is studied because it has a tendency to repeat itself.
In the 1991 Iraq war, we did not have the stomach to finish the job.
President George H.W. Bush left the problem for his son and 12 years later, we went back in because of perceived threats of weapons of mass destruction.
President Trump has stated he does not want to leave the Iran job unfinished for future presidents to worry about.
Shame on politicians like Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, who enabled Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for 50 years.
For five decades, the IRGC and its supporters have chanted “Death to America.”
Trump has used direct diplomacy to de-escalate the situation in the Strait of Hormuz.
Bypassing traditional bureaucratic and diplomatic channels has already allowed him to achieve a strategic victory.
Now, he must finish the war — diplomatically or militarily.
Richard Goldberg’s proposal to force Tehran to compromise using a blockade is much more humane than Trump’s threat to bomb bridges and power plants and reduce Iran to the Stone Ages (“Crushing Tehran in 3 moves,” May 2).
The difficulty will be opening up part of the Strait while still enforcing an embargo on shipping from Iran.
If the US Navy can free part of the Strait while still blocking Iran’s shipping, that could potentially lead to a peaceful compromise.
Other parts of Goldberg’s proposal, such as pipelines to circumvent the strait, would take too long to address the current conflict.
After the IRGC survived joint US-Israeli strikes during Operation Epic Fury, it predictably pulled out its Strait of Hormuz card, which has rattled global markets.
But the Trump administration’s naval blockade was a brilliant jiu-jitsu move that will bear great fruit, if it is sustained.
The danger here is that the political calendar could tempt Trump to settle for a nebulous diplomatic win — taking regime change off the table.
The Issue: Maine’s Dem Senate candidate, Graham Platner’s extremist past, including a Nazi tattoo.
In her takedown of Graham Platner, Miranda Devine mentions that Nazis and Communists are “two sides of the same rotten coin” (“Lowlife Dems better look in mirror,” May 4).
She is not entirely right: The Nazis were never a right-wing party as generally thought.
In actuality, they and communists have always occupied the same side of the same coin.
Miranda forgets the word “Nazi” was and is short for National Socialist Party, as left-wing an organization as they come.
Democrats will endorse a candidate who long had a Nazi tatoo but now, after blowback might cost him, denies knowing it was such.
Then they lambaste Trump by falsely labeling him a Nazi.
The biggest problem in this country is that the mainstream media is a Democratic partner.
As long as it refuses to notify the public of his covered-up Nazi tattoo, his antisemitic posting on X and his anti-American stance, the low-information voter will always be in the dark — only hearing “orange man is bad” and “MAGA is fascist.”
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