OPINION:
President Trump is at his best when he is making peace, but he opted for war on Saturday. Operation Midnight Hammer slipped seven B-2 stealth bombers into Iranian airspace, where they dropped 400,000 pounds of bunker-busting munitions that leveled the Islamic republic’s most advanced military research facilities.
“Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terror,” the president explained.
Although Mr. Trump promised to stop the endless foreign conflicts, he noted that we were already in a de facto state of war. “For 40 years, Iran has been saying, ‘Death to America, death to Israel.’ They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs, with roadside bombs.”
Attempts at negotiating with the mullahs proved futile. One might even forgive them for thinking our commander in chief