Midnight Hammer and the Politics of Choosing to Accept a Real "Mission Impossible."

And why the Left is proving once again they simply are not serious adults.

By Greg Rabidoux

To hear the leaders of the Democratic Party like Congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez or Jasmine Crockett, or Senator Tim Kaine, or even Thomas Massey on the Right (sort of), President Trump in a blind, impulsive fit of recklessness called up his Military generals and Secretary of Defense Hegseth and bellowed, "Go ahead, Pete, blow something up, anything, just do it, and damn the consequences."

Nothing could be further from the truth. This US military operation, aptly code named "Midnight Hammer" was just about as good and thought out and precise an operation as the world has ever bore witness to and benefitted from. Iran, lusting to kill Jews and Americans, was ever so close to developing nuclear weapons through its uranium enrichment program some 300 feet underground took a direct and extremely damaging blow. In fact, several. From all accounts, Iran's nuclear program is just about back to square one. And the entire world benefits from a non-nuclear Iranian terror-state, who, for decades, has made their intentions, crystal clear-Death to Israel. Death to America. For years they paid for, trained, and ordered their proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis to do their deadly, dirty work of killing Jews, terrorizing Israel, committing acts of terror and killing Americans wherever and however they could. And they were just about ready, willing, and very able to now do the job themselves.

But President Trump, after giving Iran 60 days to negotiate a peaceful way to "de-nuke" and then waiting until Israeli air force jets had taken control of Iranian air space still offered Iran the olive branch. They essentially told him to stick the branch where trees are not meant to grow and the Ayatollah, aka, "Supreme Leader," repeated his "Death to America" goal to Trump. Fair enough. What choice then did he really have? Should he have sent Marco Rubio on a private plane with pallets of cash like Obama did with John Kerrey in the hopes the Iranians stopped hating us and chose to be friends? Maybe allow them to go back to a sweetheart nuclear deal the Mullahs enjoyed under the naive Obama and the feckless Biden? Or should the President have decided to do a "Hillary" and re-set our relations with a nation that wanted our demise by clearing the way for them to get more not less uranium?

No. When you face a well-armed bully with evil intent and running would only mean delay not denial you need to take action. Not a single shot was fired upon any US plane or personnel during this daring mission. The B2s along with their incredibly skilled pilots flew all the way back to Missouri, where they had indeed, shown that state and all Americans what we are still capable of doing when called upon to do so.

We are now hearing about what a disaster this was and shrill calls for impeachment by what I can only say are not serious adults from the Left. Our Founders established a system where both our Congress and our President have constitutional roles to play but history and US Supreme Court decisions dating all the way back to Thomas Jefferson and his orders to attack Barbary Coast pirates make it clear-We cannot and should not restrain this or any president from doing what needs to be done to protect all of us.

Ethan Hunt may be hanging up his IMF security clearance card, but the real-life heroes still have nearly impossible missions to do and thankfully, they choose to accept.

Greg Rabidoux is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and author. And a big fan of Tom Cruise and the IOMF team and an even bigger fan of our real-life military men and women around the globe who lay it on the line every day so the rest of us can enjoy freedom and peace of mind.