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For a seventh night running, U.S. forces carried out strikes against Iranian military targets as American commanders moved to punish Tehran after a deadly salvo in the region. The strikes are being presented as necessary, surgical blows to degrade Iran’s ability to menace global shipping and to protect our forces abroad, and the brass say the campaign will continue until the threat is neutralized.
The price of that firmness was painfully real: CENTCOM confirmed that two U.S. service members were killed and another is missing after Iran-launched missiles and drones struck a base in Jordan, with several others injured and evacuated. Those are not abstract numbers but Americans who volunteered to stand between chaos and our homeland, and their deaths demand decisive action rather than timidity or equivocation.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a steady voice for a robust foreign policy, made plain on Fox News that weakening Iran’s terror-making capacity is the point of the strikes and that pressure must be sustained until Tehran is no longer able to export violence. He has been urging leaders to keep up the pressure rather than bargain away leverage, and his blunt analysis is a reminder that weakness invites further bloodshed.
Central Command’s public messaging made clear these operations were ordered at the Commander in Chief’s direction and timed to blunt Iran’s ability to strike at sea and on allied soil, with strikes aimed at surveillance, logistics and weapons storage. This kind of targeted application of force—kept narrow and message-driven—has to be the option of choice when diplomacy has repeatedly failed and American lives are being taken.
Meanwhile, back home, New York’s mayor is publicly weighing whether he can have Israel’s prime minister arrested if the ICC warrant and politics collide in Manhattan, a spectacle that undercuts our friends and hands propaganda to our enemies. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s posturing smacks of virtue-signaling that trades national security and diplomatic reality for headlines, and it’s a dangerous game when unity with allies is the currency we need most in a dangerous world.
This moment calls for clarity and courage: honor the fallen by finishing the job of degrading Iran’s war-making capacity, back our commanders while demanding prudence, and reject the performative politics that weaken America’s standing. The men and women in uniform deserve our steady resolve, not partisan hand-wringing or city hall stunts that play into the enemy’s hands.
