Thirty U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missiles and 14 30,000-pound “bunker busters” did considerable and possibly irreparable damage to their targets.

One extraordinary consequence was that, for the time being, the two belligerents, Iran and Israel, have declared a temporary cease-fire.

However, before claiming victory, consider several other realities that are important.

Despite President Trump’s initial and follow-on claims that Iran’s nuclear facilities were obliterated, insufficient bomb damage assessment cannot confirm or challenge his claim.

What the administration is assuming, with some justification, is that because all weapons performed as intended and detonated according to plan, it is reasonable to conclude the targets were eliminated.

Yet when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that this was the “most complex and secretive military operation in history,” as ordered by Trump, one wonders whether history started on June 21.

What would Trump have said about the famous Doolittle raid over Tokyo in April 1942, the Battle of Midway two months later that changed the outcome of the........

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