KT McFARLAND: Operation Epic Fury proves it is both America First and proudly MAGA
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Trump's Iran war is quintessentially America First, citing existential nuclear threat and need to dominate energy markets against China.
Preventing Iran from developing nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles capable of striking the United States is about as America First as it gets. K.T. McFarland was President Trump’s Deputy National Security Advisor. She is a board member of the American Conservative Union and author of the best-selling book, Revolution: Trump, Washington and "We the People."
The Trump administration has stated time and again that the United States has three goals regarding the Iranian regime: to stop its nuclear weapons program, to stop its missile program and to stop its support of terrorist proxies. That’s what the Witkoff-Kushner negotiations were about. That is what drives Operation Epic Fury. The world’s most dangerous regime must not be allowed to have the world’s most dangerous weapons.
The war with Iran is not primarily about freeing the Iranian people from a brutal dictatorship or forcing regime change. Those may be noble goals, but they are not essential to America’s national security.
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