"Awesome."

Chris Murphy, Senator from Connecticut, saw a headline about Iranian ships slipping past the blockade.
The headline was wrong but it didn't matter. He wanted to hit send.
He wanted to mock the failure of the US military.
His staff said it was sarcasm. No it wasn't.
Two days before American pilots flew into Iran, Ilhan Omar told the world we attack Muslim countries "because of who they worship."
Ignore uranium, 47 years of war via proxy terrorist states, and the innocent Iranians killed.
Let’s wrongly frame this as a religious crusade while small hat tip to a foreign adversary that we are coming.
Attacking during a religious holiday only matters in one direction. October 7th was Simchat Torah. Nobody from her office said a word.
That’s where Ilhan Omar’s loyalty lies. Anti-America.
On Good Friday, while a Colonel was bleeding in a mountain in Iran, somebody in Washington leaked to the press that he was still missing.
Axios published it. CBS published it. Washington Post published it. Reuters published it.
Iran put a $60,000 bounty on his head and sent millions of people to find him.
For the first time in American history, people at home were hoping they wouldn't find him.
Hundreds of soldiers and 155 aircraft flew into enemy territory under heavy fire to save one man.
Because that's what we do. No one is left behind.
You can oppose the war. But mocking the people who put their lives on the line is sick.
This is the country we live in now.
Your leaders leak your soldier's position. Your Senator cheers when the enemy scores. Your Congresswoman tells the world your military is a crusade.
And none of them lose a minute of sleep.
Not foreign accounts. Not bots. Americans. On American platforms.
Hoping the Colonel would be captured. Hoping the rescue would fail. Hoping the military would fail so badly it would make a president look bad.
They wanted an American POW on Iranian state television because it would help them win a news cycle.
There is a cancer growing in this country. It didn't start yesterday.
It started at Port Huron in 1962 when the New Left decided the problem wasn't policy, it was America itself.
Howard Zinn wrote the textbook. Ward Churchill called the 9/11 dead "little Eichmanns" and kept his tenure.
For sixty years a machine has been teaching Americans that the uniform is the enemy and the flag is the problem.
That machine now has Senate offices and committee assignments and 19.6 million views on X.
The enemy is in Tehran. But the cancer is at home.
You can oppose the war.
Taft did. Lincoln did. Millions of Americans right now think it was a mistake and not one of them is typing "Awesome" when Iran wins.
Because there is a line that held for 250 years. Oppose the war. Love the country.
Murphy is not in that sentence. Omar is not in that sentence.
13 dead. 373 wounded. Chief Warrant Officer Robert Marzan, 54, Sacramento. Thirty-four years in the Army. Two months from coming home. His wife and daughter were waiting.
He was almost home. They were all almost home.
And a Senator typed "Awesome."