Fireworks for America are a metaphor for freedom. After all, it takes a great deal of explosive power to free a people from a tyrant. Dropping fourteen 15-ton bunker busters from B-2 bombers on Iran’s three nuclear enrichment program sites may have just spared the lives of 58,000 U.S. military personnel from the despotism of the ayatollah, but also provided a little encouragement to the 90 million Iranian people now enslaved to him. By the way, 58,000 is the number of fatal casualties sustained by U.S. military personnel while in Vietnam. Talk about fireworks! Thank you, President Trump.

Recently, President Trump compared the importance of his bombing decision to the WWII, war-ending nuclear bombings of Japan. And despite the outrage, he is probably right. One of the key reasons President Harry Truman ordered the two nuclear strikes on Japan in WWII was to avoid the over one million estimated U.S. casualties it would require to invade. The estimate was based on the brutal one-in-three casualty rates sustained at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

And while it would be disrespectful to those military men that “gave the last full measure of devotion,” keeping the murderous Axis forces of fascism and communism at bay in the 20th Century, the unrest in the Middle East as........

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