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Opinion: No more pitty-pat diplomacy in the offing

Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP / Columnist Ron Hart says old white men with glasses who hate Trump, like the Ayatollah Khamenei and David Letterman, might need to lie low since there might be collateral damage in U.S. bombings of Iran nuclear sites.
Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP / Columnist Ron Hart says old white men with glasses who hate Trump, like the Ayatollah Khamenei and David Letterman, might need to lie low since there might be collateral damage in U.S. bombings of Iran nuclear sites. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP / Columnist Ron Hart says old white men with glasses who hate Trump, like the Ayatollah Khamenei and David Letterman, might need to lie low since there might be collateral damage in U.S. bombings of Iran nuclear sites.

By Ron Hart 4 min read

The only response Democrats were able to muster during the clandestine taking out of Iranian nuclear bomb plants was that the raids were not run by them with an intelligence briefing and then debated on the House floor in advance. Bulletin: No surprise attack gets open debate. This power is clearly vested in the president in Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution.

AOC, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders and Jasmine Crockett should be angry, but not at Trump. These “leading” Dems have not had any intelligence in their whole lives.

Had the nation known about the raid, a Biden-appointed district judge in San Francisco would have ordered the B-2 bombers to return. But now even Dems are trying to glom on, saying Obama or Hillary would have done the same thing. But there is a distinction: Hillary would have done it, but she would have made it look like an accident.

And Joe Biden taking on Iran and the Ayatollah? If Biden had been told to kill the supreme leader, he would have taken out Diana Ross.

There will always be collateral damage during war. Rumors abounded that Ayatollah Khamenei would be killed by our military. Ayatollahs are angry old white guys in glasses and big, unkempt gray beards who used to be relevant and who hate Trump. Just to be on the safe side, David Letterman had best lie low.