Avoiding Munich 2.0: Trump’s defining moment on Iran and global security

Americans should be worried that Munich 2.0 is on the horizon.

2026 cannot be as disgraceful as 1938.

President Donald Trump’s sending of negotiators to Islamabad to resume talks with the regime at the top of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a moment of danger for the world, the region, the Iranian people, Israel, the United States and, of course, President Donald Trump.

There is no doubt that all the above-mentioned parties, except the Iranian regime and its proxies, are in a much better situation than they were on February 27, the eve of the war with the Islamic Republic. The world became safer with the military and defense industrial might of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps crushed and the terrorists’ proxy force, Hezbollah in Lebanon, again suppressed by the Israel Defense Forces. The leaders of the civilized world were relieved, whether they said it out loud or not.

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But on November 12, 1918, the day after the Allies signed an armistice with the Kaiser’s Germany, the world was equally relieved.

With the signing of this armistice, the First World War ended. World War II became inevitable on the same day because President Woodrow Wilson “lost” the peace in the wake of “the war to end all wars.”

Arguably the worst president of the last century, Wilson’s ego and academic approach to the world and its realities doomed the world to war again; This war would turn out to be much worse than the war that ended long ago on 11/11. President Wilson’s mantle was accepted by President Barack Obama. President Trump must resist the temptation to cloak disaster with the appearance of a deal.

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The danger is that America (I mean President Trump, of course) will accept half or even three-quarters of a loaf of “deal” instead of demanding the surrender of the right-wing regime in Iran.

This ass is run by “hardliners” just like the fundamentalists who killed tens of thousands of their own people in January and have since executed hundreds and imprisoned thousands more. Hardliners, then and now, count on the “soft” West to give up everything that matters in order to lower gas prices and keep oil flowing to fully power the world economy. These fanatics believe they can outmaneuver President Trump in negotiations. Doubtful but possible.

President Trump is solely responsible for this negotiation. At the table today there is no Lloyd George, Clemenceau or any of the many parties involved in the Paris Peace Talks. All responsibility for any impeachment that follows—this month, this year, this decade, and even this century—lies with President Trump; just as he deserves praise.

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Negotiations failed, resulting in the disastrous “Peace of Versailles” and there was no such thing as a true peace. Long before Hitler arrived on the scene, Germany had begun planning rearmament. The Islamic Republic cannot emerge from the ruins determined not to reform but to revenge.

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President Trump can agree to anything that doesn’t matter, but he can’t get hard on the important points. The whole world knows what victory looks like. President Trump should settle for nothing less than Iran abandoning enrichment for good, the return of “nuclear powder” to American control, an end to ballistic missile production, and support for terrorists who are Iran’s “crazies,” as Secretary Rubio bluntly described this week. The basic human rights of the Iranian people must be restored.

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President Trump’s place in history depends on his determination in the present and, much more importantly, on the freedom of the Iranian people and stability for the entire region. It is no exaggeration to say that the years ahead for the entire world depend on the president’s determination this week and next.

We can’t have another Munich. A few days ago President Trump revealed the truth: the United Kingdom cannot afford another Neville Chamberlain. The United States cannot afford its first Chamberlain or another President Obama.

Hugh Hewitt, Fox News contributor and “The Hugh Hewitt Show” weekday afternoons from 3 to 6 p.m. ET on the Salem Radio Network and simulcast on the Salem News Channel. Hugh takes Americans home to the East Coast and to lunch on the West Coast on more than 400 affiliates nationwide and on all streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest of Fox News Channel’s news roundtable hosted by Bret Baier on weekdays at 6 p.m. ET A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996, where he started his eponymous radio show in Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has appeared frequently on all major national news television networks, hosted television programs for PBS and MSNBC, written for all major American newspapers, and authored a dozen books. He has moderated multiple Republican candidate debates, most recently the 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in 2015-16. Hewitt focuses his radio show and column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians Today Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests, from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush.

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