I had lunch with a senior administration official yesterday, and let me be clear: the conflict with Iran is officially over. President Trump has submitted a formal letter to Congress terminating the hostilities, and frankly, I don't understand why Democrats are still complaining.
Let us look at the facts. The White House has delivered a beautifully formatted document to Republican congressional leaders explicitly stating that no further authorization for military operations is required. As someone who has spent decades navigating the corridors of power, I can assure you that once a presidential memo is filed, geopolitical reality simply must adjust accordingly. The fact that Iran submitted a peace proposal through Pakistani mediators that the President rejected is completely irrelevant. The hostilities have been terminated on paper, which is where it counts.
We do not detail private diplomatic conversations, as doing so might alert our adversaries that the President's unilateral termination of hostilities involves several upcoming airstrikes.
I am frankly exhausted by the partisan bickering over whether an imminent bombing campaign contradicts a formal declaration of peace. It takes a staggering level of coastal elitism to look at a perfectly good piece of official correspondence and scream about a lack of coherent strategy. If we cannot trust a mandatory administrative filing to instantly pacify the Middle East, what can we trust?