A onetime official from the National Security Council during the Clinton administration stirred controversy over the weekend with remarks suggesting that Kamala Harris would have lacked the resolve to carry out the kind of military operation President Trump ordered against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
Jamie Metzl, a former Senate staffer and a longtime critic of Trump who openly supported Harris in past elections, wrote on X, “I’m not a blind tribalist and am perfectly comfortable praising President Trump for bold and courageous actions in support of America’s core national interests, as he took last night.”
He continued, “Although I believe electing Kamala Harris would have been better for our democracy [and] society. I also believe VP Harris would not have had the courage or fortitude to take such an essential step as the president took last night.”
On Saturday, American forces launched a high-stakes air and missile assault targeting key nuclear facilities in Iran, including Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz. The coordinated strike involved B-2 stealth bombers and Navy-launched Tomahawk missiles in a dramatic escalation aimed at preventing the Iranian regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
While a full official evaluation of the damage has yet to be disclosed, President Trump stated that “monumental damage” had been inflicted on the targeted sites.
Metzl, who also previously served as deputy staff director for then-Senator Joe Biden on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, underscored the severity of the Iranian threat. “Iran has been at war with the United States for 46 years. Its regime has murdered thousands of American citizens,” he said. “Its slogan, ‘Death to America,’ was not window dressing but core ideology.”
He added, “It was racing toward a nuclear weapon with every intention of using it to threaten America, our allies, and the Middle East region as a whole. No actions like this come without risks, and I imagine the story will get more complicated over time, but that’s why these types of decisions are complicated.”
Metzl’s public service also includes time as a United Nations human rights officer, and he is currently part of the World Health Organization’s advisory committee.
From the start of his first presidential campaign in 2016, Trump has consistently emphasized that the United States must not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.
During her 2024 run for the White House, Harris called Iran the “greatest adversary” of the United States and declared that every option remained available to stop Tehran from becoming a nuclear power.
The strike authorized by Trump came shortly after Israel launched its own preemptive attacks targeting Iranian military and nuclear capabilities, aiming to slow down the regime’s development of weapons of mass destruction.
Military analysts noted that neutralizing the Fordow enrichment facility — buried deep within a mountain — likely required U.S. intervention. On Shabbos, the Air Force deployed 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, 30,000-pound GBU-57 A/B “bunker-buster” bombs, to obliterate the fortified site.
{Matzav.com}
Bill Clinton didn’t have the courage to do what needed to be done to keep the Korean peninsula nuke free.
The events of the recent weeks demonstrate the folly of his policy of appeasement.
Shame on the cowardly Bill Clinton!
You wouldn’t have had the courage? They didn’t no interest in stopping around they enable them and every possible way.