{"id":2578719,"date":"2026-03-11T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marc-thiessen-is-confused-why-everyone-isnt-celebrating-a-deadly-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:27:18","slug":"marc-thiessen-is-confused-why-everyone-isnt-celebrating-a-deadly-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marc-thiessen-is-confused-why-everyone-isnt-celebrating-a-deadly-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiessen Confused Why Everyone Isn\u2019t \u2018Celebrating\u2019 A Deadly War"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarc-thiessen-is-confused-why-everyone-isnt-celebrating-a-deadly-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2578719&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An op-ed analyzes Marc Thiessen\u2019s Fox News remarks in which he says those who don\u2019t celebrate a potential Iran war are unpatriotic, arguing that ambivalence toward such a conflict can be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drivers-try-to-take-matters-into-their-own-hands-when-pro-palestinian-protesters-block-la-freeway\/\" title=\"Drivers take action as Pro-Palestinian protesters block LA freeway\">rational stance<\/a>. It warns that a war would be an existential threat not just to the U.S. and Israel but to the Gulf region and the global economy, with the White House\u2019s shifting objectives adding to unpredictability. The piece notes Thiessen\u2019s history as a former Iraq War promoter and criticizes his push to \u201ccelebrate\u201d eliminating the threat, pointing to Afghanistan\u2019s costly, inconclusive results as a sobering precedent. it also emphasizes the complexity of the situation, including Iran\u2019s regime, Israel\u2019s influence, and uncertain outcomes, arguing that it\u2019s not unpatriotic to worry about what may unfold.The author of the piece is Eddie Scarry, a columnist for The Federalist.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Marc Thiessen, the former George W. Bush speechwriter with four different country flags (and counting) in his X bio, was on Fox News this week accusing anyone who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-biden-could-be-replaced-as-the-democratic-nominee-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"How Biden could be replaced as the Democratic nominee - Washington Examiner\">isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t &ldquo;celebrating&rdquo; the war in Iran of being unpatriotic. It shouldn&rsquo;t have to be said, but it&rsquo;s not only an acceptable position to be ambivalent toward the war, it&rsquo;s the most rational position possible.<\/p>\n<p>The war is an existential crisis between nations. And not just ours, Israel, or Iran. The entire Gulf region is in peril, and the consequences are hitting the rest of the globe. People are dying, energy prices are soaring, and at any given the moment, the Trump administration changes our objectives and the definition of victory. Thiessen probably asks, &ldquo;What&rsquo;s not to love?&rdquo; but for anyone who has to fill up their tank this weekend or who perhaps simply prefers knowing what to expect when his president takes us to war with Israel strapped to our side, it&rsquo;s not a party.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen a war where so many people were rooting for failure in my life,&rdquo; Thiessen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6390697751112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Tuesday on Fox. &ldquo;I mean, where&rsquo;s the rally-around-the-commander-in-chief effect in this country? &hellip; Where&rsquo;s the patriotism?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s exactly what you&rsquo;d expect from someone whose job was literally to promote the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We should all be celebrating the chance of eliminating this threat,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and having security and peace in the Middle East. &hellip; I think it&rsquo;s quite frankly shameful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to war, people like Thiessen are incapable of considering that this isn&rsquo;t a romantic adventure where it&rsquo;s predetermined that America vanquishes all enemies in high drama glory. No, sometimes they end more like our most recent foray into the sand pits of hell known as the Middle East. Recall that after nearly two decades in Afghanistan to the tune of trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives, we left with nothing. We did lose another 13 Americans in the process of exiting, though.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>That&rsquo;s not to say Afghanistan was a waste of time or that it wasn&rsquo;t worth the blood and treasure. It&rsquo;s to remember what these projects clearly so beloved by Thiessen cost.<\/p>\n<p>We know that Iran is run by savages and the regime &mdash;&nbsp;what&rsquo;s left of it &mdash; is animated by a sick religion. To see it degraded and perhaps wiped out is by any pro-American measure a good thing. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >game doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t end there, and that&rsquo;s particularly true in this unique situation where we have what is at minimum an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/03\/03\/here-are-three-america-first-questions-about-trumps-iran-israel-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">equal partner in Israel<\/a>. (Though some would argue Israel is calling more shots than not, and those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-rip-dnc-for-allegedly-planting-beyonce-rumors-to-draw-audience-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Conservatives rip DNC for allegedly planting Beyonc\u00e9 rumors to draw audience - Washington Examiner\">people wouldn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t be demonstrably wrong.)<\/p>\n<p>In this situation, in which our greatest ally has its own motives and ambitions, directly implicating our country in everything it does, we don&rsquo;t know how it ends. We don&rsquo;t know what will happen between now and that ending. It&rsquo;s not a lack of patriotism to acknowledge that reality<strong> <\/strong>or even fret over it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party&rsquo;s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thiessen pushes Iran war stance; critics unpatriotic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2578720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Marc-Thiessen.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[6672,5894,69322,75580,50434],"class_list":["post-2578719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-commentary","tag-politics","tag-public-opinion-2","tag-thiessen","tag-war-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Marc-Thiessen.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578723,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578719\/revisions\/2578723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2578720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}