National Review editorial more favorable to Trump on Iran war issue

Unlike the aforementioned editor of the Federalist, National Review's editors appear more supportive of Trump on the Iran issue:

The reporting ahead of President Donald Trump’s Wednesday night address to the nation forecast Trump’s intention to declare victory and withdraw from the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to media speculation, he would insist that our objectives had been achieved. He would wash his hands of the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, and he would lambaste America’s NATO allies for failing to take ownership of it—perhaps even going so far as to withdraw from the Atlantic Alliance. He did nothing of the sort. While Trump did declare that most of America’s wartime objectives had been achieved, he said there was more fighting to come, and he pledged to “help” alleviate the crisis in the strait. The U.S. has so far suffered the loss of 13 service members, but the operation has been remarkably successful in destroying Iranian military power. Had the Iranian threat been allowed to mature, as the president said, the future would have been bleak.

I should note though, that the headline is the only problem here, since they imply there's no end in sight. Anybody who's going to worry about whether a war will end must consider that it's the savages running the asylum in Iran who're to blame for the length, and if a convincing effort is made to remove them from power, that will make it easier to end the war plausibly.

Interestingly, as Noah Rothman notes, there's been almost no anti-war demonstrations against the war in Iran:

And yet, while the run-up to the Iran war unfolded on an accelerating timeline, Americans probably encountered at least some of the many indications that military action against Iran was once again imminent. They did not respond to those signals with a mass outpouring of hostility toward the project. Today, more than a month into the campaign, that sort of mass action has yet to materialize.

While it could still occur, this is a relieving revelation for now, suggesting even Iran can't bankroll these abominable protests. And any RINOs who may oppose the war must've realized they'd be doing no good in the long run if they tried opposing a war against tyrants.