Democrats play puerile partisan politics over war – Latest News
With US forces in fight throughout the Middle East, prime Democrats are obsessive about . . . messaging for the midterm elections.
Disgraceful.
OK: No elected official is obliged to help President Donald Trump’s choice to completely remove the Iranian risk earlier than it’s too late; that query is no litmus take a look at of patriotism.
But mechanically opposing it, just because it was Trump’s choice, is contemptible.
And undermining our servicemen and -women whereas they struggle, and the nation’s security, is despicable.
Yet there’s Democratic chief Chuck Schumer telling the Senate: “Do you stand with the American people who are exhausted with forever wars in the Middle East or stand with Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth as they bumble us headfirst into another war?”
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Bumble? Operation Epic Fury’s planning and early execution has been flawless — decapitating the enemy management within the opening strike, quickly devastating Iran’s missile and drone capabilities and attaining full air superiority within days.
Forever war? Mission creep is all the time a risk, but the US high command clearly has no intention of sending in ground troops, not to mention occupying Iran.
And Trump is the one who put the phrase “forever wars” on the heart of US foreign-policy debates of the final decade.
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Less than a yr in the past, by the best way, Schumer was contemptuously suggesting, “TACO Trump is already folding on Iran”; now attacking Iran is “immoral and illegal.”
What about President Barack Obama bombing for regime change in Libya, or Bill Clinton’s identical in Serbia?
Meanwhile, Schumer’s House counterpart, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, introduced Monday that the prez had launched “an all-out war in the Middle East at the same period of time where Donald Trump and his administration, and Republicans, have cut more than a trillion dollars from Medicaid.”
Sure feels like he’s accusing the prez of hitting Iran purely to distract the public from . . . Democrats’ midterm-campaign speaking factors.
Jeffries additionally complains, “Trump and Republican extremists are willing to spend billions to bomb Iran,” but “have done nothing to bring down grocery prices.”
Funny: He didn’t complain concerning the $200 billion President Joe Biden (fairly rightly!) spent supporting Ukraine, although Biden’s insurance policies despatched grocery costs hovering.
Yesterday we slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom, Dems’ main 2028 candidate, for utilizing US-Israeli cooperation on Iran as an excuse for smearing Israel as an “apartheid state,” however he’s additionally half of the refrain insisting that Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu someway tricked Trump into launching Epic Fury — apparently as a result of Bibi desires to distract his voters, since “he’s got his own domestic issues. He’s trying to stay out of jail. He’s got an election coming up.”
Notice: We’re not bothering to censure Reps. Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib and many others. right here; it’s the “mainstream” Democrats (with a few honorable exceptions like Pennsylvania’s Sen. John Fetterman) whose habits appalls us.
This isn’t principled opposition to — nor healthy democratic scrutiny of — the president’s daring actions; it’s treating an epic matter of war and peace as a match goal for puerile partisan politics.
