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During this week\u2019s broadcast of \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) applauded President Donald Trump for the U.S. military\u2019s progress in what he described as \u201csystemically\u201d eliminating the threat Iran posed to Americans and our allies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does it tell you about where we are with the capabilities of Iran\u2019s missile launching, their air defenses, the fact that they do still have some tools in their belt?\u201d host Shannon Bream asked.<\/p>\n
McCormick replied, \u201cWell, I think you really have to step back. Five presidents have essentially said that we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon and that Iran building up its capabilities in the region has to be checked. And this president has taken leadership to systematically eliminate this threat to America\u2019s allies, to the American people. No country has more blood on its hands than Iran. And I think we\u2019ve made enormous progress by any measure at the military objectives the president has laid out, which was destroy the missiles, the drones, the interceptors, the Navy, and the manufacturing capacity and ensure that Iran doesn\u2019t have a path to a nuclear weapon. Clearly, there\u2019s more work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut by any measure, if on the first day when President Trump at 2:30 in the morning announced his military objectives, we would say it\u2019s been an extraordinary success, and we also have eliminated three layers of Iranian leadership,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut clearly, there\u2019s more work to do. And just imagine a scenario where the president hadn\u2019t made the decision to intervene, and Iran would have had three more years of building its ballistic missile capability and building its nuclear program. That missile that was lobbed 2,500 miles into Diego Garcia could very easily have had a nuclear warhead on it. So, this was never going to be easy. This is a very sophisticated military. It\u2019s a very well-established military that\u2019s had decades to build its capability. But we\u2019ve made unprecedented progress, and I think we\u2019re much closer to the end than the beginning of this conflict, but there\u2019s still more work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
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