What was the difference between yesterday’s tepid response from Democrats of the U.S.’s takedown of ISIS and the raid that erased Osama Bin Laden?
U.S. commandos landed on friendly soil, breached the lightly defended compound of the aging and increasingly irrelevant scumbag Bin Laden. Democrats centered their praise on Barrack Obama’s leadership followed by the national security team, and finally, the troops who killed Bin Laden.
Contrast that to the raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s hideout in Syria. Democrat response ranged from tepid praise of the troops to grumpy complaints. Nancy Pelosi whined, “The House must be briefed on this raid, which the Russians but not top congressional leadership were notified of in advance.”
Uh, Nancy, if you’re going to send U.S. aircrafts over hostile areas occupied by Russian troops, wouldn’t it make sense to give them a heads up?
Besides, keeping Pelosi and Adam “Leaker” Schiff out of the loop just seemed like the sensible thing to do. The President was rightfully concerned about compromising leaks that could blow the mission and cost U.S. lives.
Doubling down on his complaints about Democratic leadership and the press, President Trump said, “The only thing is they were talking about why didn’t I give the information to Adam Schiff and his committee, and the answer is because I think Adam Schiff is the biggest leaker in Washington.”
In any case, the outstanding success of a raid that erased the leadership and headquarters of a genocidal jihadist fanatic tended to, for the moment at least, quiet the President’s critics.
One victim of President Trump success were the snarky liberal comedy writers on Saturday Night Live. One of the “guests” in the skit was a former “ISIS prisoner,” who thanked the Trump impersonator for “making ISIS great again.”
There were some funny parts in the lampoon, especially when a Bill Clinton impersonator showed up. However, if the best satire has to have some relationship to reality, the SNL skit was more like Wylie Coyote crashing into a brick wall. As Saturday Night Live hit the airways, the Delta Force hit the al-Baghdadi compound.
Also, there is another reason the Washington establishment and their snooty supporters in the Washington Post and New York Times hate President Trump. It is because when he wins one, he rubs their noses in it. When Obama announced the rub-out of Bin Laden, he was all somber and regretful. Contrast that to President Trump’s bravado describing the monster al-Baghdadi’s demise in terms of “He died like a dog.”
All we need to know about how the Washington Post feels about that is to read their headline, “In creating spectacle around al-Baghdadi’s death, Trump departs from Obama’s more measured tone on bin Laden.” The article begins, “President Barack Obama was wrapping up a solemn address announcing the death of Osama bin Laden in a Special Forces operation in 2011 when he made a call to the nation’s better angels…”
Obama’s “better angels” were on display in his tours apologizing for our country’s greatness. President Trump has shown that he will never, ever apologize. While Pelosi, Schiff, and their band of hand-wringing wimps simper and fiddle around, President Trump has truly burned down ISIS.
So, anyone wondering what is the cornerstone of President Trump’s foreign policy needs to know just one principle: to do what is in the interests of the United States.
