The United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites. The operation had such an intensely dramatic name — Epic Fury — that even fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s action movies thought, “Eh, not a bad title.”
Like most everything, war ultimately comes down to money. Iran’s strict Muslim regime fired missiles at enemy oil ships and stockpiles, sending oil prices up. The radical Islamic leadership mostly attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. While mildly harmful, this was not nearly as damaging as their religion’s historic treatment of the Gays of Hormuz.
The partisan politics of the Internet — blessed altar of absurdity — responded predictably. The Left hates it (even though Iran treats women like dirt and mowed down 30,000 or so protesters), because Trump did something about it. And the MAGA base vacillates between loving to watch a good ass-whooping and feeling betrayed because Trump ran on no “forever wars.”
Polls show half our country applauds the preemptive attack and half opposes it. At a minimum, we prevent a radical Islamic theocracy from getting a nuclear bomb. Secondly, by snatching the Venezuelan thug Maduro out of his Snuggie at his home virtually untouched, this Iran action sends a huge military flex to the rest of the world.
Say what you will about Trump, he is willing to do something other than talk about a 47-year-old problem in Iran. Through the proxies they fund, like Hezbollah and the Houthis, Iran has murdered people all over the world. Joe Biden just tried to appease them. He feared that if he went after the Houthis, he might provoke blowback from The Blowfish.