The Strikes on Iran Achieve Many Goals at Once. Therefore, the Democrats Want You to Believe, They Can't Achieve Any

Trump has given many good reasons for the strike on Iran. The Democrats are pretending they cancel each other out.

The President addressed the nation on Monday at a Medal of Honor ceremony, explaining the goals of his strikes in Iran, coined Operation Epic Fury. He laid out three objectives:

(1) Destroying Iran’s missile capabilities

(2) Annihilating their navy

(3) Ensuring that the world’s #1 sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon and cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside their borders.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth laid out those same objectives at a press conference earlier this morning.

These are obviously completely reasonable goals, which is why the President’s opposition is tying itself into knots trying to figure out how to fight him on this.

And while those might be the three overt objectives of the Iran strikes, Operation Epic Fury is accomplishing far more things, as is the case with all of the the President’s major policies of his second term; whether it’s targeted military operations, tariffs, or even deportations, the President likes operations that accomplish multiple goals at once. And in the case of Operation Epic Fury, those goals go far beyond even the stated ones.

The strikes revealed, for example, that the China-Russia-Iran alliance is paper thin. They revealed the Islamic Regime’s willingness to fire rockets into civilian neighborhoods of all its Muslim neighbors. They revealed the growing behind-the-scenes alignment of the Israelis and the Saudis, as well as the immense and magnificent cooperation between Israel and the U.S.

Perhaps most significantly for future American safety and prosperity, the strikes isolated China from anywhere from 10-20% of its oil supply. Venezuela supplied another 5-10%, before President Trump toppled the Maduro regime. Almost all of Iran’s exported oil and over half of Venezuela’s went to China last year, per Politico. As Zineb Riboua put it, the Iran Question is all about China:

Beijing has spent years and billions of dollars building Iran into a structural asset. Everything that follows in the Middle East flows from this fact. Which is why Operation Epic Fury is the first American military campaign that threatens to sever that asset. By striking Iran directly, the Trump administration is dismantling, whether by design or by consequence, a pillar of China’s regional architecture.

The strike on Iran gives us our first real leg up over China in the fight for Taiwan’s sovereignty. How’s China supposed to take Taiwan with 20% less oil than it had last year?

The President is quite simply isolating all of our adversaries from each other and from their oil, picking them off one by one.

What could be more America First than that?

Yet to hear President Trump’s opposition tell it, he has launched a “war of choice” against Iran for which he has given no explanation. The President is “shopping around” explanations, they say, for an illegal war that he has not justified to the American people.

As Democratic Congressman Adam Smith told MSNOW this morning, “President Trump has talked about regime change, he’s talked about empowering the protestors in Iran, he’s talked about the nuclear program, the missile program in Iran. What is the objective?”

It’s truly astounding: Congressman Smith literally laid out the objectives—and then asked, “What is the objective?” He seems to believe that because there are more than one, none can be achieved.

Of course, he was not alone. “The president owes the country clear answers: What is the objective? What is the strategy to prevent escalation? And how does this make Americans safer?” Senator Warner demanded to know.

“Everything I have heard from the Administration before and after these strikes on Iran confirms this is a war of choice with no strategic endgame,” Rep. Jim Himes said in a statement.

“The goals laid out by President Trump — ending Iran’s destabilizing nuclear weapons program, dismantling its missile arsenal, crushing its proxy network, and regime change — are not the objectives of a limited strike,” said Rep. Gregory Meeks.

“Trump is plunging us into another war in the Middle East. He’s learned nothing from decades of failed conflicts. It’s a war of choice with no clear end game, no authorization from Congress, and little support from Americans,” said Rep. Jason Crow.

What’s so funny about this is the Democrats are acting like because the President had multiple reasons for striking Iran, therefore he had none, as if they cancel each other out. It’s ridiculous. But it’s par for the course.

I was once on a CNN panel and an economist mockingly said that President Trump views the tariffs like a Swiss army knife—it can do whatever you need it to! It’s a knife if you need to cut! It’s scissors if you need to snip! It’s a corkscrew if you need a drink!

But … that’s true! Trump has used tariffs to reshore manufacturing, ends wars, get us access to foreign markets for the first time ever, force Mexico to police its side of the border, and get us most favored nation pricing on drugs. The economist was acting like because the tariffs can do many things, therefore, they can do none.

It’s too soon to tell whether this operation was a success, of course. But the President has been very clear about what the objectives are—and has even left some of the major ones out (No spoilers for China!). Watch closely, and make up your own mind.