Good, it needs to be done.
But, but... there are literally hundreds of thousands of posts, maybe millions, on Social media, by Iranian and anti-Trump tools and trolls and dupes, that Iran has run the US out of all or most of the bases it was using in the ME.
“Bagdhad Bob” techniques are apparently by mass alone somehow more effective in 2026 than in 2003.
Unfortunately we have a lot of the dupes even on FR. (Dying for Israel? Iran cannot be defeated? USA in retreat? That’s all MTG “Jewish space lasers” territory.)
How shallow can you* get? Good Lord, we lost more (military) people per month to non-combat incidents back when we were growing the military under Reagan. The losses are never(!) to be brushed away, whatever the cause, but, SOME sense of perspective is needed.
*Not YOU, of course. :-)
Ok, I’ll shut up and go back to my roof repair. (More windy t-storms yesterday.)