Iran humiliates itself
After months of saber-rattling, the “death-to-Israel” crowd in Tehran (an affiliate of the “death-to-America” crowd in Dearborn) finally made good on their threat to attack Israel.
The Mullah Maniacs launched something over 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles toward Tel Avi. (Notably, none of these aircraft were piloted – even the Iranians are not that stupid.)
The Israelis along with Americans, Brits and other allies shot down 99% of them. The other 1% caused hardly any damage. No deaths or even injuries were reported.
It turns out the Iranian war machine is at about the level of . . . those sabers they were rattling. Which are notoriously ineffective from a thousand miles away.
Like the dismembered knight in the Monty Python skit, the Iranians tried to spin the failure into a great success. It was “beyond expectations,” they crowed.
They may not be able to wage war, but they sure can manage their expectations.
As a strategic and public opinion matter, the Iranian air farce was indeed beyond expectations. They could not have expected their attack to be wholly thwarted by the Israelis. They could not have expected their attack to be such a moral booster to the Israeli military and citizenry.
They could not have expected their attack to consolidate public opinion in favor of Israel in civilized societies around the world. They could not have expected their attack to prompt some of those societies – and not just America – to join Israel in defeating the attacks.
They could not have expected their attack to reveal to the rest of the Middle East the pathetic inferiority of the Iranian war machine. If you’re Saudi Arabia or Egypt, which side do you want to be on?
The barbarians of the Middle East are tough in a surprise massacre of unarmed children and elderly women. Against the Israeli Defense Forces, not so much.
It seems like there's an urge in some of the comments to say "this is a disaster" simply because it happened while Biden was president.
I hate Biden as much as any of you. But it's worth separating out Biden from what happens in the world. Not everything that happens is a bad thing simply because he's president.
BTW, I often advise my more liberal readers that not everything that happens is a GOOD thing, either, simply because Biden is president. Let's get beyond tribalism.
Meanwhile, our "esteemed" President Doofus is funding the Iranians and then telling the Israelis not to attack them? Seems par for the course for him as he won't even defend OUR country border-wise. Finally, the Middle Eastern militaries except Israel are good at public displays and passing in review but little else.