Annie Jacobsen

I think they're fair weather friends that just turn on them in a second.

No, that's different.

I would say if you're going to, you know, extract someone, you haven't killed them.

So that's not decapitation.

I mean, I watch it, and it's just very, very, very dangerous.

Keep going.

I mean, I'm interested in looking at outcome, you know, and then kind of looking backwards at how we got there.

And I'm also very interested in how divided America is, because I really do see it as the greatest weakness.

So you can show strength in what just happened.

But if you are extremely vulnerable at home, then I'm not talking necessarily about Hezbollah terrorist cells being, you know, activated, which may or may not happen.

I'm just talking about

the clash of political parties in the United States.

And to that end, I often look at the past.

And so we're talking about, you mentioned being friendly and having our allies.

And I can't help but look at the reaction of the opposing party right now at this action, for better or for worse, but bringing up the Iraq war.

And talking about how we got our allies involved, we went to Congress.

And I, as a historian, can't help but think, but wait a minute.

The Iraq War was built on faulty intelligence.

The Iraq War led us into a 20-year war.

absolute misery with so many people in this area killed and so many more problems metastasizing as a result.