Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansen for The Daily Signal.

I know a lot of you have been exasperated by the reaction to the Iran war from the Democratic

grandees in the House and Senate, the liberal

media, the New York Times, particularly the Washington Post, NPR, PBS, the network, even the Wall

Street Journal's news section. And then we have some people on the right who have also looked at the

war and said it was lost, it went south, it was going

to World War III, blah, blah, blah. All of them share one thing in common, excuse me, two things in

common. One, they wanted it not to go well, wanted it not to go well, because it would reflect

badly on Donald Trump and his administration.

And if you were a Democrat, that would give you some momentum going into the midterms.

And if you were a disaffected former supporter, it would prove to the world that you were right all along.

And Donald Trump is reckless and got us into a forever unwinnable war. But whatever the particular reason was, both of them were not historical analyses.

Both these people never were empirical.

They were never historical.

Had they looked at America's wars in World War II, Korea, Vietnam,

and more importantly, more recently, the bombing campaign in Serbia,

or the bombing campaign in Libya, or the First Gulf War, or the Second Gulf War, or the Afghan,

they would have come up with some data, some information.

And then they could have compared this particular engagement and compared

it with the others, or they could have said to themselves, I'm not going to prejudice what

happens, I'm going to look exactly what the data is on the ground.

How many missiles were destroyed?

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