Donald Trump's courageous and correct decision

For decades, a succession of American presidents pledged that they were willing to use force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

- Bret Stephens

But it was President Donald Trump who, by bombing three of Iran's key nuclear sites Sunday morning, was willing to demonstrate that those pledges were not hollow and that Tehran could not simply tunnel its way to a bomb because no country other than Israel dared confront it.

That's a courageous and correct decision that deserves respect, no matter how one feels about this president and the rest of his policies. Politically, the easier course would have been to delay a strike to appease his party's isolationist voices, whose views about the Middle East (and antipathies towards the Jewish state) increasingly resemble those of the progressive left. In the meantime, Mr Trump could have continued to outsource the dirty work of hitting Iran's nuclear capabilities to Israel, hoping that it could at least buy the West some diplomatic leverage and breathing room.