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Conrad Black: Triumph in Iran is coming

The U.S. and Israel are crushing the Islamic regime, no matter what the media claims

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Most of the world’s media including in the U.S is now stating or implying that the U.S. and Israel leapt impetuously into war with Iran, have blundered, and that the world may be on the verge of a terrible economic crisis, and a much wider and “forever” war. The biases of Al Jazeera and the Guardian, of the international leftist media generally, and the spigots of media Trump-hate in the United States are all well-known and drearily predictable. But many media outlets and commentators from whom we had a right to expect better have gleefully leapt into this trap like perspiring children jumping into a lake on a hot summer day.

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The United States Navy will clear the Hormuz Strait within a few days. Iran is utterly resistless against its assailants and the pretense of any ability to conduct a defence of attrition, let alone aspire to underdog sentiment for their plucky stubbornness is just an illustration of the stupidity and moral bankruptcy of much of the western media. The spectacle of commentators who couldn’t tell a B-2 from a Piper Cub masquerading as von Clausewitz reciting strategic inevitabilities is, at least, amusing. Two weeks of war has led to claims that it is dragging on, is already a “forever war,” and even that the United States is losing and that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had no plan. Yet Iran has almost no military force left. The air force and navy,........

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