Annie Jacobsen

You know, the biggest surprises of the past 40 years, the Berlin Wall falling and 9-11, were completely unseen by any intelligence report.

So there is an argument that those intelligence reports are as good as a coin toss.

Well, I don't think that you could say to the families of the 30,000-some people who were murdered by the regime just earlier in January that it's a dead dog.

I think they would disagree.

I'm not saying it's correct what was done.

I'm just simply saying the facts of that, which I agree with unilaterally, that the weekend situation was perceived by this administration as the moment to strike.

Agreed.

And what is done is done.

And so I think what's more interesting to me is –

You know, observing how America is dealing with this, I mean, we are in our own crisis, America, our own serious crisis.

And there are crises around the world, particularly in this area.

And without having a crystal ball, none of us know.

And I think that what will happen in the next two weeks will be profoundly telling.

Interestingly, people will say this was a good move or this was a bad move, which in and of itself is a bizarre theater because your point is correct.

You've got America taking action in a place that's not its backyard.

That's a sovereign country.

Yes.

And to your point, you've got decades of a menace that is now off the table.

Exactly.

We don't know.