Trumps Iran strike revealed a second surprise: a competent White House

Operation Midnight Hammer, this weekend’s US bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, was a revealing moment on multiple fronts.First, it confirmed that Iran’s story about peaceful energy development, never very believable, was false. Nobody does peaceful research under hundreds of feet of rock and concrete. And former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev came right out and admitted that Iran was building nuclear weapons. We knew that, but still ..

.It also established that most of the “anti-war” crowd are just anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-West activists. Mobs carrying Hamas flags turned overnight into mobs carrying Mexican flags, then into mobs carrying Iranian flags — and they’re the same mobs.And it highlighted the hypocrisy of Democratic politicians and pundits who cheered President Barack Obama’s bombing attacks on Libya, Syria, Yemen and others — and are now calling President Donald Trump’s bombing “unconstitutional” and “a war crime.” But the most jaw-dropping reveal isn’t any of these things.It’s that the Trump administration 2.0 is, in fact, highly competent — amazingly so.Think about it: The Iranian government was caught completely by surprise. The United States sent B-2 bombers to the other side of the globe, penetrated Iranian airspace without being noticed, dropped 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs down the ventilator shafts of deeply buried facilities and exited the country without a shot fired at them.The world didn’t know a thing until Trump announced it on Truth Social, as the bombers were heading home.Impressively, there were no leaks about the operation.(How? Basically, they didn’t give any Democrats details about what was coming.

Take note.)In addition, Trump and the diplomatic apparatus kept the Iranians in the dark, feigning White House waffling even as military assets were in motion.He received unintentional help from Sen.Chuck Schumer, who for some time has been pushing the “TACO” acronym �...