Despite having overseen both the obliteration of Iran’s nuclear ambition and a cessation of hostilities in a war that had been raging between Isreal and Iran for nearly two weeks, President Trump is not being treated to any of the requisite accolades that should come with such an accomplishment. 

To call what Trump has done “heroic” isn’t the slightest bit hyperbolic -- several American presidents have signified that a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable, and have committed to ensuring that it would never happen. 

Yet actually ensuring that outcome would require a credible threat of consequences for Iran’s noncompliance, and to have any credibility in making threats requires action beyond clandestinely sending pallets of cash to the mullahs, as Obama did.  Only Donald J. Trump has recently had the intestinal fortitude to exert America’s military might in order to establish a global order of deterrence by using Iran as an example.  And Trump did this without suffering a single American casualty in the operation.

The competence and seemingly flawless strategic execution of this operation were refreshing for most Americans.  Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, by comparison, was an inept tragedy of errors that anyone paying even a little bit of attention could recognize. 

Why, for example, did Biden allow Bagram Air Force Base to be evacuated before American citizens and our allies were extracted from Kabul?  Thirteen American soldiers were killed at Abbey Gate as the Taliban reclaimed control of the country after America’s botched escape.  Hundreds or thousands of Americans and our allies were left stranded, as terrible images of desperate Afghanis clinging to the wheels of departing American planes were imprinted in American minds.

Conversely, consider the past few weeks. 

In close coordination with America and many of the formerly-hostile surrounding Arab nations, Israel’s missiles and planes traversed over 1,000 miles to decapitate the Iranian military, its top nuclear scientists, and to completely destroy Iran’s anti-aircraft defense capability. 

In a response that was reported by CNN, Dana Bash

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