US allies need to get a grip – step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz

With friends like these: One real virtue of the Iran war is how it exposes once-hidden disloyalties.

That goes for the various cranks on the right we considered the other day, most prominently podcaster Tucker Carlson, formally "evicted" from MAGA by President Donald Trump and sadly now claiming the CIA is out to frame him.

Other big-ish righty names — Steve Bannon, Megyn Kelly, Marjorie Taylor Greene — are also denouncing Operation Epic Fury, marginally undermining a mission that has strong support among GOP voters and even more so among MAGA ones.