Annie Jacobsen

And short of Iran, you know, threatening to kill Pompeo and others.

Nothing has really happened on that.

But again.

You know that we just don't know.

We don't know.

We the general person does not understand how that impacted Israel, how that impacted Hezbollah, how that, you know, impacted the entire terrorist organization across the Middle East.

And I think that is a little bit of a sort of maybe poetic analogy that I'm trying to get at with this current, you know, capture mission.

But the specifics of this capture mission are astonishing to me because it was so successful.

That is what is hard to wrap one's head around, at least for me.

Killing Solani is a lot easier.

Drone striking someone.

I mean, this was an astonishingly huge operation.

And what if it had failed?

Well, I don't know.

I don't know.

And this is why it's and I mean, that is like an interesting thought experiment, because.

we know about the missions that fail.

I mean, and then again, what, what this reminds me of the closest analogy that failed would have been Bay of pigs trying to kill Castro in this, you know, most, you know, people aren't even, they only know about this as just like the Bay of pigs.

But if you really look about the drill down on that and understand what happens when something goes wrong, how a president Kennedy in that situation becomes embarrassed and outraged.

And so what,