OPINION:
Can the left, its press and members of the Woke Reich podcast bros start loving our country more than they hate President Trump? Can they stop rooting for America’s defeat by ignoring our victories when claiming that America is losing?
Within three days, the United States built an air base inside enemy Iranian territory, rescued a pilot, went around the moon and celebrated Easter. That’s winning.
Enemies in Iran (the Basij, a subsidiary branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) purportedly have only a pair of boxer shorts and a teriyaki beef stick, scoured from jet wreckage, as trophies.
Europe showcased why it is in decay by questioning our use of resources to rescue our badly injured pilot. Compare: Iran just executed a wrestler for criticizing the mullahs. We sent multiple aircraft to rescue a single soldier.
Europeans are used to Democrats such as President Biden leaving behind 200 Americans in Afghanistan after a botched Kabul retreat. Britain won’t protect its women and girls from Pakistani sex trafficking, France won’t protect its citizens from Islamist violence, so of course, they don’t understand our honor, ethos or warrior creed of no man left behind (or what this means to scores of families with military-age sons considering service).
The United States enjoys air supremacy in Iranian skies (shoulder-fired missiles don’t count). This is winning.
We have lost equipment (some of which we destroyed ourselves, i.e., the old C-130s first built in the 1950s). We have sadly lost 13 Americans, but the regime is cycling through ayatollahs faster than Spinal Tap went through drummers. The remainder of the regime is in tatters, its navy is nonexistent, its air force is nonexistent, and it is forced to rely on its ragtag, “Borderlands”-style island of misfit terrorist militias for offense. That is winning.
We have a president engaged in the daily operations of this military response. His somewhat explosive temperament terrifies enemies and allies alike, for all of the right reasons. We have Persian Gulf allies aiding us, and Bahrain is leading the vote at the United Nations for authorization to open the Strait of Hormuz. That is not unilateral; it is winning.
Additionally, we are boxing out China in the strait and resetting the entire balance in favor of dominant America in this unipolar world. We haven’t before witnessed such a lopsided military engagement in our lifetimes. This is winning.
None of this registers with the left, the legacy press or the Woke Reich. They want America to lose. They acted crestfallen at the news that our second pilot was rescued, similar to how they reacted when it became apparent that Iran’s nuclear ambitions were thwarted (America finally learned from the lesson of North Korea). These doomers aid Iran’s internet and media blackout by arguing that the lack of protest footage means the regime has the full support of its people. They falsely accuse the administration of killing schoolgirls while they remain stone silent on how the IRGC gang-raped and sexually tortured nurses who dared to treat protesters injured by the regime. Many of the nurses suffered such horrific injuries that they required hysterectomies, removal of intestines and other surgeries. Nothing from Podcastistan on these horrors.
This axis of idiocy was apparently happy with President Obama’s midnight delivery of cash pallets to the mullahs. They decry any perceived violation of “international law” posed by America’s response while remaining silent on the same “international law” violated by Iran by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States’ response to Iran has revealed who our true allies are and who they are not. It also has forced the true nature of the insufferable, panicking doomers out of hiding. If you want a picture of real Trump derangement syndrome, if you want to witness legitimate “never Trump,” then feast your eyes on the caterwauling of the professional TDS doomer class whose raw hatred for the president has overtaken their love of country, their allegiance to the republic and their ability to function as thinking beings capable of logic.
They are not winning anything by this; they are only losing.
• Dana Loesch is the host of the No. 1 nationally syndicated weekday talk program, “Dana Show,” a bestselling author and a Second Amendment advocate. She lives in Dallas.
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