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The Editors

Episode 784: Bombs Away

The Editors

National Review

Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Conservatism, Conservative, Policy, Government, News, Jim Geraghty, Rich Lowry, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Current Events, Noah Rothman, Madeleine Kearns, Society & Culture, Public Policy, National Review

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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0:00.0

President Trump hauls off and hits Iran and is he now a neocon?

0:21.3

We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors.

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I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined as always by the right honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the good neighbor, Noah Rothman, and the notorious M.B.D.

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Michael Brendan Doherty.

0:34.6

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0:57.2

I said anything.

0:58.6

So MBD, the much speculated about attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities happened over the weekend.

1:08.2

You and Noah, I guess, are kind of tied for the honors of getting this right or having

1:12.9

the highest percentage odds that it was going to happen. Charlie and I were much lower to our

1:19.1

disgrace, but you guys expected this to happen. A major strike with E2's biggest strike in U.S. history, what we dropped 14, 16.

1:31.6

We drop a lot of these mops, often refer to as mobs, but actually they're mops on Fordo,

1:41.1

which sustains major damage and on two other Iranian nuclear facilities as well.

1:47.4

He had fighter jets participating, clearing out air defenses, and cruise missiles being shot from submarines as well.

1:55.7

What do you make of it?

1:57.3

Well, what I make of it so far is the, you know, the operation itself seems to be really impressive.

2:05.2

I mean, it seems that our airmen were under no danger at all, that they had complete run of the skies, that they were refueled well in air and were able to circle back and fly all the way back to the

2:20.9

United States once from which they took off at the beginning of the bombing run so i mean the the

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