I headlined my post on St. Paul Academy alumnus Tim Sheey’s appearance on Fox News with Brian Kilmeade “Senator Sheehy explains.” The Wall Street Journal headlines its editorial on the same segment “Tim Sheehy explains Iran.” The Journal’s editors write:
The Trump Administration is working overtime to sell its deal with Iran and assail anyone who questions sanctions relief for the regime that has massacred thousands of its own people. So points for political courage to Montana Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy.
“I hope that Vice President Vance and [Jared] Kushner and [Steve] Witkoff are successful in convincing Iran to be a normal country and to open their minds and stop trying to murder their neighbors and destroy the world,” the former Navy SEAL said on Fox this week.
“But the reality is this is a murderous regime” that doesn’t care about gas prices or opening up the Strait of Hormuz, he said. “They want you and your family and all of us to be killed. They want to wipe our civilization off the map. That’s their national motto.” The core conceit of Mr. Trump’s deal is that Iran wants to be a “normal country,” as Mr. Vance puts it.
Mr. Sheehy also offered remedial education about America’s friends in the Middle East, especially Israel. “Let’s not forget Pakistan hid [Osama] bin Laden for a decade” and “Qatar’s been laundering money for terrorist organizations for decades.” To watch the Administration for the past several days, you’d think the biggest impediment to peace in the Middle East is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu….
Whole thing here.
