The New York Times has a special video appeal to President Trump that at once condemns him and promises him that he can ‘win a Nobel Peace Prize’ if he follows in Obama’s footsteps and betrays America, Israel and the free world by supporting Islamic terrorist states in Iran, Israel and across the region.

The actual path to peace is to do the opposite of what Obama did. And that’s to stop supporting Islamic terrorists.

Every time America supported Islamic terrorists, whether it’s in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel or Syria, and Obama’s entire feckless Arab Spring, the results were a disaster that blew up in our faces.

There may be no Nobel Peace Prize for not supporting Islamic terrorists (even if there ought to be) but it is the safest and most reliable path to peace. While supporting Islamic terrorists is the most reliable pathway to violence and war.

The Clinton administration and the Obama administration did even more damage with their ‘peaceful’ nation building than the Bush administration did with ‘regime change’ and ‘nation building’ in Iraq. Why? Because all roads ended up empowering Islamic terrorists.

There is a simple two-step solution for the Middle East.

1. Stop empowering Islamic terrorists

2. Empower their opponents without direct intervention (and done right, we’ll never have to intervene.)

This may not make war magically go away, but it will significantly limit its scope. Because the one thing that can really make the region go to hell is when Islamic terrorists take over entire countries.