Trump is messaging that he won the war— this is a good first step in extricating us from what would otherwise be a catastrophic mistake. The reality is, the best “deal” we can make with Iran at this point that works in our favor is to just leave—it’s the only case in which POTUS then holds the cards. He needs to “close the deal” now, before the Iranians force him back into a shooting war. We simply can’t assume that Iran will wait idly for us to make the next move. Alarmingly, it seems we are failing to account for just how aggressively killing the Ayatollah & bombing the girls’ school has radicalized Iranian leadership & its people—it’s very likely that Iran will feel compelled to drag us back into the war in order to force the U.S. to retreat, bloodied, both for the sake of its national honor & for deterrence. Trump can end this by pulling our troops & ships out of the region now—deprive Iran of targets to hit and the leverage they need to escalate. Trump says we’ve won, therefore we can bring them home. He can then offer sanctions relief & the unfreezing of assets as a carrot to get the SOH open. Iran will broadcast that it wants to impose tolls, but without the U.S. acting as the aggressor in the SOH, will lose the justification to do so. Time is not on our side, and we are fools to think we can control the pace of the war. With each passing moment we risk being sucked back in, to ultimately squander even more American blood and treasure.