This morning, there were two press conferences that addressed events in Iran. Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman Daniel Caine talked about our military operation. They emphasized the devastation that we have wreaked not only on Iran’s military forces, but on the industries necessary to rebuild those forces. The numbers are impressive:
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed the press, beginning with a similar recitation of the consequences for Iran of our military action. She then fielded questions, few of which had to do with military matters. There was a good bit of pearl-clutching from reporters about President Trump’s threat against Iran’s “whole civilization.” That comment was perhaps silly, given that the administration had already made clear that the next stage of our offensive would be attacks on Iran’s power plants and bridges, not its “whole civilization.” Leavitt defended the threat on the ground that it got results, in that Iran came to the negotiating table and agreed to open the Strait:
As reflected in both press conferences, the press is desperately searching for ways to try to portray our fantastically successful demolition of Iran’s military might as a failure. No doubt they will soon hit on a consensus plan of attack.
