It was with intent that I avoided Sunday cable news shows this morning, not wishing to put an early damper on my Easter.
This way, I got to avoid the anticipated gaggle of leftist stooges from Congress, or the LameStream media, and assorted RINOs showing up on my TV and screaming how President Trump had violated his no-boots-on-the-ground promise regarding Iran by sending in special forces to rescue a downed airman.
Would these vacuous types be capable of such political opportunism? Have you been paying attention through the 30-plus days of this “endless” war, how they seemingly root for our failure? There’s your answer.
Ironically, my escapism into the world of Leave It To Beaver reruns brought me the tail end of an episode in which Beaver and Wally got a horse from a carnival and father Ward ended up paying a farmer to keep it, since the town of Mayfield didn’t allow horses to in the Cleaver’s neighborhood. The boys previously had sold the horse to a guy from a glue factory, but realized their error and canceled the transaction.
The irony came in the following episode regarding Ward’s service in World War II, when he had been in the Seabees (Construction Battalion). Beaver went looking in Ward’s army footlocker for guns and grenades, but instead found a T-square and surveyor’s transit.
This was tough stuff for the kid, who had been bragging in school about his war hero father.
While Ward and his wife June were discussing the matter in general terms, since they did not yet know the details, Ward was planning to ignore it and told June “never trouble trouble ’til trouble troubles you.”
This works for father figures in traditional sitcoms. It doesn’t work (despite many tries by Clueless Joe and Barack Hussein) when you are president of these United States.
Presidents need to be decisive. Trump is just that.
Reportedly, it was Trump who gave the initial OK to put boots on the ground for the rescue mission, as he since has made clear on social media and at least one interview.
The situation was uncertain when I went to bed last night, including stories of intense firefights with Iran forces, some Iran citizens helping hide/locate the guy and others looking to cash in a bounty from the disintegrating Iran government for his capture.
An account of the rescue of this weapons officer from a downed fighter plane (the pilot had been rescued previously) told of the injured airman hiking up a 7,000-foot peak, perhaps having the CIA being involved in aiding him with ground assets, and, finally a commando team being inserted to facilitate his rescue.
Even that was complicated when two transport planes “got stuck” in sand at a remote Iran base and three replacements had to fly in to remove the personnel. The “stuck” planes were destroyed on the ground, lest Iran grab them and benefit from examining them.
Trump noted – correctly – that it was net another brilliant effort by our military, with zero U.S. casualties.
It’s an uplifting story on this most special Christian holiday, no matter how leftists might try to propagandize it.
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