This weekend, on his Fox News show, “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Mark Levin referred to President Truman’s use of atomic weapons on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and how this action purportedly saved the lives of a million US soldiers who would have otherwise died in an invasion of the Japanese mainland. Levin seemed to propose that Trump could and should take similar action to end the war in Iran.

It’s hard to wrap one’s mind around the prospect of a nuclear-armed nation—the only nation that has ever used nuclear weapons—using nuclear weapons on another nation because—in the judgement of the nuclear-armed nation—the other nation aspires to acquire nuclear weapons.

Iran’s support of Hezbollah is hardly grounds for attacking Iran with nuclear weapons. People who moralize about Iran’s support of Hezbollah should consider that the U.S. government has supported all manner of roguish proxy groups, including Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra after al-Jolani was released from a U.S. prison in Iraq for killing US servicemen with roadside bombs.

I believed he was completely sincere when he repeatedly proclaimed he had no interest in dragging us into another war, and that he would use his vaunted art of the deal to negotiate constructive arrangements with our adversaries.