The U.S. must not let down its guard during the triumphant afterglow of its flawlessly executed bombing of Iran’s three key nuclear weaponization facilities, warns Dan McCarthy in Jewish World Review. The loose border policies of the Obama and Biden administrations allowed thousands of unvetted Iranians to enter the U.S. illegally, including an unknown number of “sleeper” agents who even now may be plotting assassinations, terrorism and other mayhem.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.