Posted on 06/22/2025 11:29:19 AM PDT by karpov
President Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s three most significant nuclear sites on Saturday helped rid the world of a grave nuclear threat and was a large step toward restoring U.S. deterrence. It also creates an opportunity for a more peaceful Middle East, if the nations of the region will seize it.
“Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Mr. Trump said Saturday night. He made clear Iran brought this on itself. “For 40 years, Iran has been saying ‘death to America,’ ‘death to Israel.’ They’ve been killing our people,” he said, citing 1,000 Americans killed by Iran-supplied roadside bombs and other means. A nuclear Iran was a perilous threat to Israel, the nearby Arab states, and America.
Mr. Trump gave Iran every chance to resolve this peacefully. The regime flouted his 60-day deadline to make a deal. Then Israel attacked, destroying much of the nuclear program and achieving air supremacy, and still the President gave Iran another chance to come to terms. The regime wouldn’t even abandon domestic uranium enrichment. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wanted a bomb more than peace.
The Pentagon on Sunday disclosed more details of the mission, which included effective deception and B-2 bombers and deep-penetrating bombs only the U.S. can deploy. A full damage assessment will take time, and it’s possible some enrichment capability survived. But the Israelis believe the site at Natanz, where enriched uranium was stored, has been completely destroyed. At the very least Iran’s nuclear program has been set back by years.
Military conflict is unpredictable and Iran may retaliate, no matter how self-destructive that would be. Iran and its Iraqi proxies have threatened U.S. regional bases with missile fire, but Mr. Trump warned that “future attacks will be far greater” if Iran goes down that road.
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Joe’s moment his first year: Gives 80+B in US military material to our mortal enemies the Taliban.
Glad the Leftist WSJ sees it that way.
OMG. If this is what the WSJ says, Trump must have screwed up really bad, and here I was thinking the mission was a great success and exactly the right thing to do.
GOOD!
Wasn’t The Moment a cast member on Jersey Shore?
The bad news is that there probably aren't enough WSJ acolytes left here to keep the website in business after the rest of us are gone.
So now the Wall Street urinal loves Trump.
The hard left globalist Wall Street Journal is excited. So is John Bolton, Lindsey Graham, etc. and every globalist and neocon on the planet is wetting their pants with excitement! John McCain is smiling at us from down in hell, I bet even the bush family is happy.
But FReepers want to know NOW!!!
The WSJ said something nice about Trump.
“...so many of us despise the Republican Party..”
So many of whom? Alberta and a bunch of Russian trolls, total count of about ten?
How about the grassroots voters who selected Trump out of a whole bucket full of @ssholes who were peddled by the GOP establishment as presidential candidates in 2016 and 2024?
Couldn’t load the full article but thanks for supplying as always.i can get the paper in the library
I’m mad too. I wanted the Iranians to be able to make lots of nuclear bombs. Nothing wrong with that. Trump is a bad boy.
“...I’m mad too. I wanted the Iranians to be able to make lots of nuclear bombs. Nothing wrong with that. Trump is a bad boy....”
Don’t worry. Some low-life, commubnist-RAT, federal district judge will order him to extract the bomb fragmentss, bring em back to the USA and restore the Iranian weapon sites to the original condition. Iran has standing and due process coming to them in this case...
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