Ben Rhodes

Some of the potential ground operations that are on the table, which are the invasion of Karg Island, which is where most of Iran's oil exports go through.

That island is only 16 miles from Iran's coast, so drones, missiles, those would be a constant threat if we were to invade Karg Island.

Then there's operations along the coastline of the Strait or on strategic islands to secure the Strait of Hormuz, but we apparently don't care about the Strait of Hormuz anymore.

And then there's an operation to seize Iran's enriched uranium, which would be a massive multi-day undertaking involving...

per the Wall Street Journal, combat troops to secure perimeters, engineers with excavating equipment to search through debris and check for mines and booby traps, special operations forces with expertise in handling nuclear material, and unless an airfield was available, a makeshift one would need to be set up to bring equipment in and take the nuclear material out.

Um, I just want to play you a clip here because you I think you have, you know, some unlikely people who normally would be war cheerleaders who've been coming out.

We've talked about them.

But just in reference to all of this potential military action, you have Eric Prince, right?

The founder of the infamous military contractor Blackwater, formerly known as Blackwater.

I forget what they rebranded to.

Yeah.

So this was at a panel at CPAC last week.

And I kid you not, the name of this panel was called Breaking Stuff and Killing Bad Guys, the Case for Western Military Dominance.

But here's what he had to say.

I take everything Eric Prince says with a grain of salt, right?

I mean, the guy, he's profited plenty off of American military endeavors, but what does that tell you?

Let me just say.

So there were 12 troops who were injured on Friday when Iranian missiles and drones hit the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, which is interesting, too, because it's like we don't have a military base in Saudi Arabia, unlike some of the other Gulf countries.

But then clearly there's a U.S.

troop presence there.