Miranda Devine: Armys 250th anniversary parade was a celebration of America unlike foolish No Kings protests
The weekend’s grand military parade in Washington to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary was a feel-good patriotic triumph and a rebuke to Democrats and their mean-spirited, small-minded anti-Trump protests. America has the mightiest army in the world.It’s something to be proud and patriotic about.
Why not celebrate? And what a show it was, with uniforms dating back to the Revolutionary War, 6,600 soldiers, 150 vehicles and 50 helicopters participating, not to mention a robot dog and drones. The parade was a display of pride in our troops and their awesome weaponry, but importantly, it also stood as a warning to our adversaries at a time of global peril, amid the specter of war in Iran. “Time and again, America’s enemies have learned that if you threaten the American people, our soldiers are coming for you,” the president said in a brief but stirring speech, which lauded the grit of America’s soldiers without mentioning Iran or any hostile nation by name.Nonetheless, the warning was clear. “Your defeat will be certain, your demise will be final, and your downfall will be total and complete because our soldiers never give up, never surrender, and never, ever quit.
They fight, fight, fight, and they win, win, win.” Here was the unmistakable echo of the moment almost a year ago when candidate Trump rose to his feet after surviving an assassin’s bullet, blood streaming down his face, fist raised, and uttered the immortal words “Fight, fight, fight” — which led him, of course, to “win, win, win” to the never-ending chagrin of the Trump-deranged. But that was the only self-referential moment in the parade.The crowd spontaneously sang “Happy Birthday” to him at the end, but Trump seemed content to let the Army be the star that day. Of course, his detractors sneered that the parade was a self-aggrandizing display to satisfy his ego because it coincided with his birthday. Sign up for Devine Online, the newsletter from ...