Washington Examiner senior columnist Guy Benson said the news coverage of the Iran war does not reflect the success of the operations.
“We also heard from the president multiple points about how successful the mission has been in Iran, and based on a lot of the coverage you see, especially elsewhere, you would have no idea what a smashing success this has been for the United States and for Israel,” Benson said on Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier on Friday.
Since the United States and Israel launched joint missile strikes against Iran on Feb. 26, President Donald Trump said Iran’s navy and missile defenses have been destroyed.
Iran’s leadership was also severely affected, with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and others being killed in the airstrikes.
Benson said the Iranian regime has been “absolutely obliterated,” listing the leadership as being “decapitated” and their capacity to respond “massively diminished.”
Despite these successful military operations, Benson said there is still “negativity.”
“There has been this drumbeat of negativity in the coverage that I think is distorting the picture,” he said. “Yes, there are big challenges. Yes, we just had the tragic loss of life of more Americans. Yes, there is the issue about oil prices.”
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“Of course, these are things I’m sure the administration anticipated and game planned for, but you’ve got to zoom out and look at the bigger picture,” Benson added.
Benson said, so far, the mission has been an “extraordinary historic success.”
