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 Lt. 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 14 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.
‘Unconventional’
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 mostcourageous and consequential leader since Ronald Reagan. The man who rose from the stage in Butler, Pa., blood pouring down his face, who raised his fist in the air and said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!,” is exactly whom you want as commander-in-chief at a time like this, especially as it’s not his first rodeo.
Photographs released by the White House show a serious-faced Trump inside the Situation Room Saturday night, wearing his trademark suit and red tie, not cosplaying a flyboy as his more casually attired predecessors liked to do.
His only bow to informality was a red MAGA hat with “45-47” on the side, representing his bifurcated presidential terms and the relentless grit it took to come back from the political dead.
So much for “TACO Don.” He outfoxed everyone.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, just after emerging last week from the Situation Room, where he watched the president deal with the complexities of the Iran-Israel war, likened Trump to Winston Churchill.
“He has a strategy and it’s not a conventional strategy, but what conventional person has ever done great things?” said Bessent, in an interview for my new podcast, “Pod Force One.” “Does anybody think that Winston Churchill was conventional?
“[Trump is] also so flexible in terms of the way he looks at things,” Bessent said. “We’ve just spent basically the past 24 hours in the Situation Room over the Iran-Israel conflict, and I can tell you that the American people should know, and the American troops should know, that Donald Trump is doing an incredible job looking after their interests in what could turn, without someone like him, could turn into a widespread conflict that US soldiers and interests could get sucked into.”
New team
In one fell swoop, Trump also restored the prestige of the US military, which had plummeted under Joe Biden.
Most welcome was the upgrade from Gen. Mark “Thoroughly Modern” Milley of “white rage” fame, to whom Biden had to give a preemptive pardon on his way out the door, presumably for his Trump-deranged outbursts to the Chinese.
In Milley’s place, we now have “Razing Caine,” once a daring F-16 pilot, and as cool and contained a general as you could find.
“This mission demonstrates the unmatched reach, coordination, and capability of the United Statesmilitary,” he told reporters in a Sunday news conference alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, another veteran whose rapport with “war fighters” has helped revive recruitment to record levels.
“In just a matter of weeks, this went from strategic planning to global execution,” said Caine. “As the president clearly said last night, no other military in the world could have done this.”
What a contrast to the previous administration.
Under Biden, our military was humiliated. Preposterous wokery and weak leadership led to a breakdown in discipline embodied in online displays of perverts in uniform dolled up in kinky dog masks and bondage gear.
Read the full op-ed over at The New York Post:
Miranda Devine: Trump’s ‘spectacular’ Iran strike could carve his place in history as most courageous leader since Ronald Reagan https://t.co/VbeYGUS6Uk pic.twitter.com/Ll5qlS5hpZ
— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) June 23, 2025
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