A decorated former general compared President Donald Trump's high-stakes standoff with Iran to the historic military blitz that helped bring North Vietnam back to peace talks and end America's involvement in the Vietnam War.Speaking on "Hannity," Lt.Gen.
Keith Kellogg argued Trump’s latest use of "kinetic strikes" and heavy threats brought Iran back to the negotiating table this week."The bombing that he took, the kinetic strikes, actually brought the Iranians to the table.It's not the first time we've ever done that," Kellogg said Friday.He compared Trump’s move to President Richard Nixon’s 1972 "Linebacker II" bombing campaign, which helped break a stalemate in peace negotiations.TRUMP PIVOTS ON STRIKES WHILE DANGLING IRAN DEAL, TESTING WHETHER TEHRAN BLINKSPresident Richard Nixon posed in his White House office after publicly outlining a U.S.
peace proposal calling for simultaneous troop withdrawals from Vietnam, the release of prisoners of war and the resignation of South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu ahead of new elections.(Bettmann/Getty Images)"If you go back to 1972, we saw the same thing happen with President Nixon and Kissinger when the North Vietnamese were just delaying the peace talks," Kellogg said.
"Well, he unleashed what was called Linebacker II.He put B-52 bombers over Hanoi and Haiphong and basically bombed them back to the table."The Linebacker II operation was used to force North Vietnam back into serious peace negotiations and lasted for nearly two weeks as B-52s attacked military targets around Christmas.WHY TRUMP KEEPS FLIPPING ON IRAN: A PRESIDENT WHO SEES THE WORLD AS HE WANTS IT TO BEEarlier this week, the U.S.
carried out a series of attacks inside Iran in retaliation for Iran shooting down an American Apache helicopter.On Thursday, Trump said he canceled plans for further strikes, citing progress toward a potential peace deal.Kellogg said the strategy unfolding with Iran mirrors the Nixon-era strikes, adding, "You...