It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

So what I miss?

I took a week off.

I come back and the entire world has changed.

Still catching up with it.

Not that I wasn't following every twist and turn,

even on vacation of the U.S. and Iran and President Trump and what he was going to do or not do.

There was a lot of deception involved.

But I don't think anybody is criticizing that today.

In fact, some of the president's critics, people who have no use for him, who oppose him on just about everything, to their credit, are saying this was a hugely successful mission in taking out or at least attempting to take out Iran's nuclear facilities and saying, look, it was successful.

Now, how successful it will ultimately turn out to be, what the consequences are, what the retaliation will be,

all remains to be seen. So I don't want to pop any champagne corks prematurely. But look,

you know, and I don't choose this word lightly. Iran is an evil country,

the world's leading terror state and sponsor of terrorism, as you probably know, by other countries or groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, such as Hamas in Gaza,

which perhaps, not perhaps, which did start this cycle with that infamous, horrible, inhumane,

barbaric October 7th massacre in Israel. But this ultimately doesn't turn on whether you're a supporter of Israel,

or you think Israel's gone too far,

whether you think Israel's out of control, any of that.

I mean, Israel certainly started this with its own strikes

against Iranian nuclear facilities

and the killing of top uranium uranium nuclear facilities and the killing of top uranium

uranium scientists as well as leaders.

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