Welcome to the best. Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.

Today is Wednesday, June 10th, 2026.

I'm John Pott Horst, the editor of Commentary Magazine.

With me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald.

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Senior editor, Seth Mandel. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel.

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And Washington Free Beacon editor, Eliana Johnson.

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Seth, we here's, I just want to lay out the last like 14 hours, so, uh, or 24 hours. So

the Iranians attack at Apache helicopter, um, whose a crew undergoes a miraculous rescue, uh,

by a very high, newfangled, high-tech piece of equipment that helps rescue

them. The president says it's no big deal. Then later in the day, he says it is a big deal.

Then he strikes back at various sites in Iran, but the administration wants it to be known that these

attacks, this response is proportionate. It's proportionate, and therefore, in theory, because

it's a proportionate response to a single action.

Implicitly, the ceasefire is holding, even though we had direct exchange of blowing things up and out of the sky.

Then the president starts tweeting out on true social, a scene from the

West Wing in which somebody starts screaming about how proportionality in war is stupid and that this is

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