Morning Glory: Why does President Trump care so much about an American Iron Dome?

"First of all, bash not presume this is nothing."

According to Israeli newsman Nadav Eyal connected the astir caller "Call Me Back"
Podcast with big Dan Senor, this is what the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces ("IDF") Lt. General Herzi Halevi writes to himself connected a notepad successful mentation for a presumption telephone astatine 3:30 AM connected the greeting of October 7, 2023. The telephone was triggered by aboriginal reports of antithetic enactment successful the aboriginal greeting hours of the time that Hamas would invade crossed the confederate border of Israel, massacring astir 1,200 people, kidnapping much than 250 and taking them backmost into Gaza, and injuring astir 5,000.

When the caput of the IDF wrote that atop his notepad, it was 3 hours earlier sirens sounded successful the Israeli-Gaza borderline communities of Nahal Oz, Ofakim, Kfar Aza, Nir Oz, Kissufim, and Be'eri, arsenic good arsenic the metropolis of Sderot, and much than 3 hours earlier the archetypal violent crosses into Israel.

Whatever was said successful the telephone with Halevi that greeting did not trigger the benignant of alert that would person positioned the IDF to destruct the Hamas forces earlier they killed and kidnapped.

The IDF precocious released the archetypal study into the events of that unspeakable day. As reported successful the podcast, this study from the IDF is really the merchandise of 80 antithetic investigations into each facet of the IDF’s actions oregon deficiency thereof connected that day.

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This is not the "whole of authorities and the nation" enquiry which volition travel down the roadworthy aft the warfare is finished. Such inquiries ever happen. It is portion of the civilization of the Jewish State.

It is not portion of American culture. The 9/11 Commission and the Warren Commission are the exceptions to the regularisation successful America wherever governmental jockeying astir ever precludes a superior look backmost astatine unspeakable failures.

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The astir pressing request successful the United States close present is not for an enquiry into the infirmity of President Joe Biden during his presidency, nor into the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, nor a look into whether "weaponization" of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation occurred successful the past 4 years. Opinions connected each of these controversies and much are fixed.

What the United States needs present is simply a heavy dive into our astir glaring vulnerabilities to attacks from abroad. We were victims of astonishment attacks connected December 7, 1941 and connected 9/11. What astir today?

President Trump has hinted that helium volition motion an EO authorizing an Iron Dome project. (Reuters)

In his caller book, "Seven Things You Can’t Say About China," Senator Tom Cotton reviews the open-source grounds astir General Secretary Xi Zinping’s ambitions, his robust power of the Chinese Communist Party and done it the People’s Liberation Army and Navy and its immense quality and espionage establishments. China besides possesses hypersonic missiles which airs the gravest menace arsenic has ever menaced the continental United States, arsenic they determination faster than each erstwhile atomic missiles and tin broad the state successful little than an hour—perhaps overmuch less. The Wall Street Journal produced an aboriginal study into the caller menace successful September 2023, but overmuch has changed successful the 18 months since that report.

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When President Trump talks astir the request for an Iron Dome for America, it’s not capriciousness oregon puff speech connected a planetary scale. It’s a pressing need, arsenic is the Columbia-class ballistic missile-carrying submarine and the B-21 bomber, 2 kegs of our atomic triad that request deployment arsenic the aged legs astatine oversea and successful the aerial property out.

There are problems and determination are problems. Do not presume that the menace of a archetypal onslaught connected America "is nothing." It's real. And we ought to instrumentality existent steps present to deter it. 

Hugh Hewitt is big of "The Hugh Hewitt Show," heard weekday mornings 6am to 9am ET connected the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast connected Salem News Channel. Hugh wakes up America connected implicit 400 affiliates nationwide, and connected each the streaming platforms wherever SNC tin beryllium seen. He is simply a predominant impermanent connected the Fox News Channel’s quality roundtable hosted by Bret Baier weekdays astatine 6pm ET. A lad of Ohio and a postgraduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law astatine Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 wherever helium teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous vigor amusement from Los Angeles successful 1990.  Hewitt has often appeared connected each large nationalist quality tv network, hosted tv shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for each large American paper, has authored a twelve books and moderated a people of Republican campaigner debates, astir precocious the November 2023 Republican statesmanlike statement successful Miami and 4 Republican statesmanlike debates successful the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his vigor amusement and his file connected the Constitution, nationalist security, American authorities and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump implicit his 40 years successful broadcast, and this file previews the pb communicative that volition thrust his radio/ TV amusement today.

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