VDH: "They Get Up Every Morning Thinking: I Want To Destroy Israel, Then America"

Democrats have been repeating one phrase since Operation Epic Fury began: there was no "apparent threat." No apparent threat that justified military action. No apparent threat that warranted the strikes. VDH decided to test that phrase against 47 years of history.

241 Marine peacekeepers blown up in Beirut. The U.S. Embassy in Beirut destroyed. The U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya bombed. Iranian operatives linked to the attack on the USS Cole. Shaped charges that k!lled 600 to 2,000 American soldiers in Iraq. October 7th — green-lighted by Tehran as part of their "ring of fire" strategy. Assassination plots against Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Ambassador Hook.

After every single one of them — no apparent threat.

VDH's analogy is the one that lands hardest. What if a U.S. Navy plane had spotted the Japanese fleet on December 4th, 1941 — one day before Pearl Harbor? The fleet was sailing under radio silence. It hadn't fired a shot. Someone says: there's no apparent threat. We can't take them out based on what we think they might do. And then on December 7th, 2,403 Americans are d∗ad.

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Victor Davis Hanson has been studying war and its causes his entire professional life. When he lays out a case like this, it deserves… pic.twitter.com/6JqhQaEDCb

— M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman)March 25, 2026