The Left’s ‘Politically Advantageous' Iran War Narrative | Victor Davis Hanson
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | We're in the second week of the so-called Iran War. There's a very surreal war. I don't think any of us have seen anything like it. |
| 0:07.3 | It's only been two weeks, and we're told that it's dragging on, that it's a forever war, that we're losing, that the Pentagon and the Trump administration had no plans. |
| 0:16.9 | And yet, when you look at Iran, this huge country, much, much bigger, much more populous than Iraq or Afghanistan, and it has no military left. |
| 0:25.8 | And yet people say that it's unconquerable. |
| 0:28.7 | It doesn't make any sense. |
| 0:30.1 | It's output of missiles and drones at the Gulf petrol states, and Israel has dropped by 90%. |
| 0:36.4 | So what's going on? |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. We're in the second week just completing it of the so-called Iran War, |
| 0:57.0 | this effort of the United States to bomb theocracy into submission so they will cancel their missile |
| 1:06.0 | and nuclear programs and to champion the popular protest on the streets that have some potential to get rid of the regime itself. |
| 1:16.6 | But it's a very surreal war. I haven't seen, I don't think any of us have seen anything like it. |
| 1:21.6 | It's only been two weeks and we're told that it's dragging on, that it's a forever war, that we're losing, |
| 1:28.9 | that the Pentagon and the Trump administration had no plans. |
| 1:33.1 | And yet, when you look at Iran, this huge country, much, much bigger, much more popular, |
| 1:39.8 | populist than Iraq or Afghanistan, and it has no military left. The Navy is dismantled. The Air Force is |
| 1:48.1 | dismantled. The Republican Guard, all of these special contingents are under enormous assault. |
| 1:57.1 | The command and control is destroyed. The missile defense is destroyed. And yet people say |
| 2:04.3 | that it's unconquerable. It doesn't make any sense. It's output of missiles and drones at the Gulf |
| 2:10.9 | petrol states, and Israel has dropped by 90%. So what's going on? And I think part of the problem is that there's no media |
| 2:20.1 | coverage. There are no embedded reporters because we are not on the ground. When you don't have a |
| 2:27.0 | ground fight in enemy territory, you don't have American embedded journalists traveling with |
| 2:32.9 | the troops that can give diverse opinions, |
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