On April 6th, Hot Air posted an article about the rescue of the two American airmen shot down over Iran. The article included a lot of X posts that illustrated the difference between some America’s view of the rescue and the European view of the rescue.

My favorite quote from the article was a statement by Former CENTCOM commander Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie, who PERFECTLY described the situation– “It takes a year to build an aircraft — and it takes 200 YEARS to build a military tradition where you don’t leave anybody behind!”

The article included the following X post:

The article notes:

As soon as the news broke of the downed F-15, a massive divide became evident: Trump’s opponents, to a person, shouted that this was proof that the United States was losing, that Iran had the upper hand, and, worst of all, a creeping sense that some of these people felt absolute glee.

…Not all, of course. It is never all, but 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.

This is another X post from the article:

I am not sure if we can ever bridge the divide that we see developing in western civilization. We have not had to defend our civilization in this generation, and I am not sure we will be able to defend it if we are called to do so.