BATTLE FOR WORLD / BUCHANAN | December 31, 2019: Patrick J. Buchanan comments at the beginning of the article, asking: "If there are IEDs on Trump’s road to reelection, they may be found in the Middle and Near East, land of the forever wars, and North Korea. Not infrequently, foreign policy has proven decisive in presidential years."

Looking to 2020, this writer (Buchanan) predicted that Donald Trump’s great domestic challenge would be to keep the economy firing on all cylinders. His great foreign policy challenge? Avoiding war. ...Trump enters his reelection year with a fistful of aces. One has to go back half a century to find numbers like these. And the opposition shaping up to bring him down seems, to put it charitably, not up to the task.

While Trump is facing an impeachment trial, an acquittal by a Mitch McConnell-run Republican Senate seems a pretty good bet, said Buchanan.

The critical foreign theaters where Trump could face problems with his presidential re-election include Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea.

...Nor is a shooting war with Iran that rivets the nation’s attention.

Yesterday (Dec 30, 2019), U.S. F-15s, in five attacks, hit munitions depots and a command center of the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia in Syria and Iraq, a retaliatory raid for a rocket attack on a U.S. training camp that killed an American contractor and wounded four U.S. soldiers.

“For those who ask about the response,” warns a Kataib Hezbollah spokesman, “it will be the size of our faith.” One has to expect Iran and its militia in Iraq to respond in kind.

In former times, a confrontation or shooting war often benefitted the incumbent, as there was almost always a rallying to the flag. Those days are gone. This generation has had its fill of wars, noted Buchanan.

(BattleForWorld: The ending of 2019, and the ushering in of 2020 is one of more wars. And it's evident that whomever the war plotters are, the Middle-East is very important, specifically "Iran". The West keeps expanding Iran's resume with all sorts of war-footing and trouble-making. And at a near future time the resume will be strong enough to convince the public using mass-media and neocon pundits that a war with Iran is ready, and President Trump will have to make a decision.)

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