Rescue of F-15 WSO Reveals HUGE Cultural Divide Between Left and Right, Europe a

[SVPete]

Rescue of F-15 WSO Reveals HUGE Cultural Divide Between Left and Right, Europe and America

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/06/rescue-of-f-15-wso-reveals-huge-cultural-divide-between-left-and-right-europe-and-america-n3813577

The gap truly is unbridgeable.

It's hard not to conclude that after the event of this weekend, even if we held out hope that somehow, once the TDS is in the rear-view mirror, we might find a way to talk with each other.

As you might imagine, I, like many of you, was glued to news sources (X, in my case), vacuuming up as much information as possible about our downed WSO.
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... the overwhelming sentiment seemed to be satisfaction, and even a creeping hope that Iran would capture our pilot and WSO. And when the pilot was recovered, the intensity of the left's seeming hope that the WSO's fate would be determined by Iran was...disturbing.
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As we all know now, the entire US AND Israeli military—the Israelis sent special operators out to assist with the rescue of our WSO—moved heaven and earth to accomplish a miracle. Yet all the attention of the left—and the Europeans—was to heap scorn on America, our military, and even to crow about our losses of EQUIPMENT, as if anybody cares about replaceable equipment in such situations.
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The French commentators were particularly scornful. They focused on the loss of our equipment, saying that it was a waste and a sign of weakness that we expended so much time, effort, and treasure to rescue one man. The country that gave us the collaborationist Vichy regime, and which is now cooperating with Iran, is lecturing us about military strategy and tactics.

The military personnel of every nation where this was expressed should take heed. When they are in danger, France and nations expressing similar views will save planes and tanks and ______ and abandon them. Many/Most US Dems would as well.

[ADsOutburst]

The side that lectures us on valuing life over property is here to tell us about what a waste of machinery the rescue operation was.

[SVPete]

I saw that some retired general said that it takes a year to build a plane, but two centuries to build a military that values its soldiers so highly.

US military personnel should take note of pols, regardless of party, who complain about the cost of this rescue. Those pols see them as expendables and WILL betray them if they get into danger.