Miranda Devine: Trumps spectacular Iran strike could carve his place in history as most courageous leader since Ronald Reagan
What an impressive sight it was Sunday, when the futuristic B-2 stealth bombers sliced through the powder-blue Missouri sky on their triumphant return to home base in the American heartland after dropping their Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs on Iran’s underground nuclear sites.The strikes were “a spectacular military success,” President Trump told the world Saturday night, after emerging from the Situation Room.“Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,” he said.While Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen.
Dan “Razing” Caine said Sunday it was “way too early” to know the full extent of damage at Iran’s Fordow uranium-enrichment complex, satellite images show several large holes and a layer of gray-blue ash where all 12 massive “bunker buster” bombs, each weighing 30,000 pounds, hit their target Saturday night in Operation Midnight Hammer.The strikes were also a spectacular political calculation by the president who ran on no new wars, and managed to keep a poker face all week as he was given advice by all and sundry.He made the right decision, and it appears to have been executed flawlessly.A limited strike, in and out.
Iran’s nuclear capability has been eliminated or at least severely degraded.No regime change.If the nuclear threat from Iran is indeed neutralized, leading to the extension of the Abraham Accords and peace in the Middle East, Trump will have achieved what countless predecessors failed to do.If he pulls it off, without embroiling us in a larger war, he will have carved his role in history as the most courageous and consequential leader since Ronald Reagan.
The man who rose from the stage in Butler, blood pouring down his face, raised his fist in the air and said, “Fight, Fight Fight,” is exactly who you want as commander in chief at a time like this, especially as it’s not his first rodeo.Photographs released by the White Ho...