On Fox News’ The Five, liberal host Jessica Tarlov predictably attacked President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury move to deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, calling the regime “religious lunatics” and whining that decapitating the theocracy would just spawn more terrorist copycats.
She mocked the mission as incoherent, complained about a “billion dollars a day” cost, and obsessed over $4M missiles vs. $20K drones as proof the conflict is unwinnable, ignoring the plethora of much cheaper ways that America has of dealing with those drones. Jesse Watters shut her down hard, pointing out her endless complaints ignore stellar results.
Starting off her comments, Jessica Tarlov began, “If you think that going after a theocracy like this, made up of religious lunatics who you cut off the head and 100 more sprout out, is the same [as Venezuela or simpler targets]… it just makes you look stupid.”
However, Jesse Watters interupted, saying, “It’s not [the same]—we get your hand down. It’s down. You just—it’s more challenging. Down, mouth down. Crazy like the State of the Union. They are crazy.” Tarlov countered, “No one who’s watching this, by the way, thinks I’m the crazy one. The timeline about that probably not. I get it. Just tweet at me. I see you. I hear you.”
Still not done attacking the president, she added, “Okay, so the timeline is completely incoherent. Here, we started at just a couple days, and we got to four to five weeks this morning. Pete says, ‘As long as we need to succeed, and it could be up to eight weeks.’ We are burning through a billion dollars a day. We are spending whatever you care… Listen, just hear about money. This is so predictable.”
Pointing out the hole in her argument, one of the other panelists asked, “Is that still more or less in the Somalian [fraud]?” Attempting to regain control, Tarlov changed the subject: We’re using $4 million missiles to take out $20,000 drones. That is a problem. They talked about that in the briefing yesterday, and Jennifer Griffin also talked about it.”
Later in the same segment, she said, “When you say that this is something that we can go in and we can be surgical and then we can get out. That’s why everyone was actually okay, in a bipartisan fashion with past things that President Trump has done, because they were actually surgical and short, like project, operation…”
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Blowing her argument apart, Watters noted, “Okay, all right, yeah, I disagree. I mean, no, you don’t have a problem with the results. You have always a problem about the process. That’s all you have, because the results speak for themselves, but take the head off, we left the body. That’s like Venezuela.”
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Fighting back with an irrelevant claim, Tarlov attempted to defend her argument. “I just said, we left 100 new bodies in place, and they pop up and they blow up. They better have health and dental, because no one’s taking that job,” she said.
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