Israel’s Victory Will Be a Success for American Grand Strategy

The U.S. has an opportunity to fundamentally reshape global relations in our favor and to benefit the West. We should seize the moment.

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Smoke and flames rise over Beirut’s southern suburbs after a strike amid the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, October 3, 2024.

Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Iran’s large-scale strategic attack on Israel this week came in the wake of Jerusalem’s utter decimation of Hezbollah, Tehran’s flagship terrorist organization. The United States and Israel have now come to a strategic fork in the road — a decision point on how to respond.

Despite the Biden administration’s best efforts to appease Iran and restrain Israel over the past four years, and certainly over the past few months, Israel is finally executing a victory strategy to defeat Iran and its axis of terror in the Middle East. That strategy’s logical conclusion — never clearer or within closer reach than at this very hour — is one that would be not just a win for Israel but a major achievement for American grand strategy: Iran must lose.

Richard Goldberg

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Richard Goldberg

Richard Goldberg, a former official on both the National Energy Dominance Council and National Security Council, is a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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