The Biden administration should be celebrating an Israeli airstrike that took out two Hezbollah leaders rather than calling for “restraint and de-escalation,” retired CIA analyst Fred Fleitz, who served as the National Security Council chief of staff under former President Donald Trump, said on Newsmax, Sunday. 

“It was a major victory in the war against terror,” Fleitz told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “But I think what we’re seeing right now is what we were predicting earlier in the year that this was going to be a bad year, given Joe Biden’s weakness, and he is now the lamest of lame ducks.”

Saturday’s airstrike on a Beirut suburb claimed the lives of Ibrahim Akil, who was in charge of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, and Ahmed Wahbi, another senior commander in the group’s military wing.

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