We have just completed the third week of the Iran war. And yes, it is a war not some special military operation. That was the terminology used by Putin to justify his incursion into Ukraine. That SMO is now in its fifth year.
If one were to listen to the Left and their allies in the media, one would believe that the Iran war has been dragging on for a long time. Of course, one would also believe that Iran is winning the war despite the fact that their leadership has been decimated, the various branches of their military have been annihilated and their ability to replace military stores has been seriously degraded.
Victor Davis Hanson has weighed in with his insights on the war.
But it’s a very surreal war. I haven’t seen—I don’t think any of us have seen—anything like it. It’s only been two weeks, and we’re told that it’s dragging on, that it’s a forever war, that we’re losing, that the Pentagon and the Trump administration had no plans.
And yet, when you look at Iran, this huge country, much, much bigger, much, much more populous than Iraq or Afghanistan, and it has no military left.
The navy is dismantled. The air force is dismantled. The Revolutionary Guard. All of these special contingents are under enormous assault. The command and control are destroyed. The missile defense is destroyed. And yet people say that it’s unconquerable.
It doesn’t make any sense. Its output of missiles and drones at the Gulf petrol states and Israel has dropped by 90%.
Some people want to claim that Iran is being very coy and is holding back until Israel and America run out of ammo. What coverage there is coming out of Iran is very biased to say the least.
Hanson:
I think part of the problem is that there’s no media coverage. There are no embedded reporters there because we are not on the ground. When you don’t have a ground fight in enemy territory, you don’t have American embedded journalists traveling with the troops that can give diverse opinions, accurate accounts.
All we have are the journalists who are allowed into Iran, and that happens to be—guess who—CNN, and they report the party line that comes out of the Iranian theocracy.
Again, an air war is very hard to cover because pilots can’t talk to anybody. They’re at bases that are secluded and secure. They get in the planes, they fly their mission, and they go home, and there’s no way a journalist can really get to them or talk to them.
So, all of our information comes from three sources: the Iranian propaganda machine, which is completely not credible. It’s about as credible as the Hamas body count that we saw two years ago. Or CNN and a few other Western—but very biased—news outlets that only Iran will let in, based on the conditions which they impose on them.
In this country we have some who have bought into the line that Trump is being controlled by Netanyahu. This is ludicrous on its face. I am certain that there are those in this administration who would like to have some control over what PDJT puts out onto social media.
PDJT is a man of peace. PDJT started no new wars during his first term in office. The last thing that Trump wants is to go to war. The fact that we have gone to war should be a very big tell about what is going on. There was no other choice except to allow Iran to obtain the weapons that could be used to turn the world into one big caliphate.
One would think that the Democrats would understand this. I think they do. However, they want to be in power more than they want to protect America.
Hanson:
And there’s an alternate reality that’s been constructed by the Left that sees this war as politically advantageous to its agenda to recapture power in the United States if it can convince us, the American people, that A, we’re losing, B, we may deserve to lose, C, it’s all Donald Trump’s fault, and this war will be beneficial in denying him the Republican majorities in Congress in about eight months.
So, the Democrats are supporting terrorism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, etc. in order to return to power. It is time to vote all Democratic traitors out of office.