Joe Bob (7:37)
And I think that's the big one. No casualties of any kind. But it basically speaks to the misinformation that the US Put out there through the CIA, through the military, through physical aircraft dropping bombs in various locations to throw people off. Oh, they dropped a bomb over here. They must be over here. And President Trump said, about 25 miles away from where the Colonel actually was. I want to read you this from the New York Post to US Military official familiar with the operation told the experienced Middle east journalist Michael Weiss, the US Air Force had to use multiple bombs to blow up all the aircraft they abandoned at the airstrip. Sorry, forgot to mention that there was a manufactured airstrip that the United States effectively made out of nothing and had to land in there. There were some technical issues, some mechanical issues that went on with those aircraft, and they had to leave them there now rather than leave Them there, let them fall into the enemy's hands. Obviously they destroy them. That's kind of standard practice. The official close to the situation said the Iranians also shot down two MQ9 Reaper drones. We'll get to why. I think that that is more important in just a quick second. But he goes on to say this. Luckily the US Suffered no casualties and we had to use multiple bombs and missiles to blow up IRGC Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vehicles that tried to get up the mountain and those who tried to drive onto the airstrip. In other words, they were protected and kept safe by all of the US Aircraft that were assigned to this mission. Again, really quickly, they had had people on the ground, had military aircraft, aircraft malfunction. Rather than scrap everything, they send in additional aircraft to go pick those people up. Everybody got out. America wins. Fantastic. Okay, all of this, interestingly enough, is happening at the exact same time that the US is using B2 bunker busters to blow up the underground IRGC headquarters. All while this is happening during an incredibly complex and incredibly sophisticated and incredibly brave operation to rescue an American behind enemy lines. We are also blowing up the enemy's headquarters. Slight tangent, by the way. This to me is a great example and evidence of we can do two things at the same time, right? You have two problems. You can take care of both of them at the same time in the United States of America. So the whole argument of, well, we should be doing this and not this, we're big enough, we're big enough superpower that we can do both of them at the same time. So this brings us to why. What does this say about us? Three points that I would like to hit on. The first is it displays our amazing, unbelievable regard for life. The United States of America, as evidenced by this military operation, values human life and American life so much that we are willing to use an enormous amount of resources and personnel in, in order to recover just one American. Will the Iranians do that for their people? No, they will not. Will many of the other countries around the world, one decide to do that for their people or two have the ability to do that for their people? Absolutely not. As far as resources go, like I mentioned, there were two aircrafts that were unfortunately in not working order to take off from. From the makeshift airshift. Makeshift airstrip and had to be blown up. There are bunch of libs out there pointing out the cost of that. Well, these are, you know, multiple tens of millions of dollars that were blown up effectively by the United States on this airstrip. To me, Though that just kind of reiterates the point of we will stop at nothing if there is a possibility of rescuing one of our own. It is an amazing regard for human life that the enemy Iranians do not have, especially in light of them killing 30,000 of their own people for protesting in the streets. The second point that I'd like to hit at is the ability of our military. I want to just read you a couple lines from an article in the UK Telegraph. The article was entitled by Britain couldn't have pulled off this Iran rescue. Which is correct. Let me just read this to you verbatim. This rescue is proof that the years of integration and leadership. So said I'm gonna read this to you, but it didn't really set it up. He's. The whole article is talking about when the Iranians. When the Islamic extremists originally took over. Remember a bunch of Americans kidnapped. That's what the movie Argo is about. We got him out of there. Great operation, but, you know, also had some issues. I think eight military servicemen died in those rescue attempts. He's talking about, okay, US learned from their mistakes or their difficulties and adapted. And here's what they've come to. The United States prepared the US military better than any other. The deep understanding of joint operations and relentless rehearsal has made the US Special operations the most capable in the world. Fact check true. Losing a C1 30 and a helicopter won't matter so long as everyone has brought home. And again, I think those aircraft are probably going to be different depending on when this guy wrote this piece again in the UK Telegraph. He goes on. For Britain, there is a harder lesson. We could not have done it. We do not have the platforms, the satellite, the reach or the mass. Our rescue plan, if the airmen were British, would be to call the US Our only choice would be reaching out to Washington or capitulating to Tehran. In other words, the UK as well as many other of our quote unquote allies. Their only plan is please us, Help us, please. Americans, we are incapable. We can't do it. Can you help us? And of course, Americans, you know, would reach out, a helping hand when possible. But I think this underlies how spectacular this event was. Let me just finish up what he said. Um, again, this guy writing in the UK Telegraph, the Americans got their man because they decided decades ago that they would never accept the alternative. That's given them power, that demands respect. Britain once had it, like America. We could decide to have it again. I read that because I figured I nobody's going to say that better than this guy writing this article. I believe this is a British service veteran. Yeah. The bottom line is, one, we're. Well, the first thing is we have an amazing regard for life. And two, we have capability because we prepare for this sort of stuff. The last point that I'd like to hit at is the total opposite of the cheerleading that I do and hopefully you do for the United States of America, regardless of the conflict around the world, regardless of whether or not you think we should be in Iran. I think we should. I think the president has displayed why it's necessary. Um, but again, regardless of that, it's crazy to effectively root for the U. S to lose. Which brings us to our third point is, which is the overwhelming amount of defeatism that for some reason exists in our mainstream media. Andy Kessler wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal about this, and let me read you a line from that, because I think this is exactly on point. He says this about the US Media loving to lose. For some reason, I can't stand all the defeatism. After a few short weeks, multiple New York Times columnists use the word quagmire to describe Iran. Really? No Navy, few launchers, dwindling missiles and drones, plus nukes under rubble. Yet the Guardian writes, the President has lost the Iran war. What the f are you people talking about? All of the people around the media space, and honestly on several planes of the political spectrum talking about, well, the United States is losing the war, or. Or we shouldn't be involved in, therefore, I don't want the US to be successful are crazy people. The defeatism that exists in our culture is so pervasive that, you know, this is why we do this new media type stuff, because it needs to be ousted. Because again, regardless of what you think about this particular military intervention, you should never want the United States of America to effectively lose. And many people haven't outright said that. But the analysis that they've done around this might. Has what Might as well have been in that lane of, oh, you know, look at how bad this is going. Look at how awful this is. It's another forever war. Which, again, President Trump refuted last week. We said, yeah, a couple more weeks, which is Nowhere near the 20 years that we've spent elsewhere to get, in my opinion, much less actually done. So if we turned around very quickly to what would Iran do? Well, of those three points, they would do the exact opposite. We already mentioned earlier that they have no regard for human life, and if it gets them better publicity, they'd happily kill as many of their own people as they possibly could, which obviously then kind of it doesn't lead into. But it also kind of displays the lack of capability that they have countries that would do that to their people generally don't have people that would rise to a certain standard and then allow that country to reach the capability United States. So that's I guess point number two. But the last one is the defeatism. If anybody should have defeatism, it should be Iranians who go, yeah, this whole regime thing, this is not really working. But for some reason and this, this is, this is crazy to me, there are certain people that are still cheerleading the Iranians against the United States despite all of the shortcomings, which is the exact opposite, opposite of what many in our mainstream media are doing. One story in particular happened last week and this is a great to end this segment on a little bit of a smiley fun note. Remember General Hassan Kassem Solemani, former General of Iran? He got well as Senator Kennedy would say, may he rest in pieces. I know he said that about the Ayatollah. It also still makes sense for Solemani. Well, he has a couple relatives who have been cheerleading the Iranian regime. His niece and his grand niece allegedly celebrated the attacks on U.S. soldiers and military bases that Iran launched in response to the US the interesting component of that, aside from the fact that they for some reason are lacking the defeatism that many folks at the New York Times have despite being superiorly incapable, is the fact that they're doing that from US soil. If you're not hip to this story, these two just great idiots, I going to try to elevate them sarcastically, but there's no way to do that. Kassem Solemani's niece and grand niece were celebrating the attacks on Americans in the Middle east while living in Los Angeles. This from the New York Post. While living in the United States, she, the niece, promoted the Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against American shoulder soldiers and military facilities in the Middle east, praised the new Iranian supreme Leader. You know, the gay, impotent amputee, denounced America as the Great Satan and voiced her unflinching support for the Iranian. Sorry, the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps, a designated terrorist organization, according to the State Department's letter confirming their arrests. Again, thank goodness, if you're not hip to the story, we're gonna not allow that. They were here on green cards and well, bye bye. Which just goes to show you the people that hate the United States of America the most, not like your Congressman Ilhan Omar or Congresswoman Aoc who do hate America but you know are refuse to leave even people who are enemies of the country literally. Which again, you may be able to make a case for Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar. But beside the point literally enemies of the country reflect refuse to leave and want to live here because of how awesome we are. We are the greatest country this world has ever known, full stop, evidenced by rescue missions like this and doubled down on by the fact that people who literally hate us won't leave is this is Monday. I'm just I'm happy to be here on a Monday with this amount of good news. TPT tbsa.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms. We got a lot to get to coming up and get to the point including and I'm I'm mostly serious breaking WNBA news. I just it trust me. 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