Ben Rhodes

And he's joking about curtains.

You know, I mean, we cannot allow that to be not reprehensible because it is.

And he's dropping the hits.

Barack Hussein Obama.

OK, we get it.

You know, he is a Muslim middle name.

Give us a break, man.

But wait, Tommy, he said it twice.

Yeah, they had a gun to our head.

The second time, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm glad you said that because they can say this is not another endless war, another forever war because we're going to stop bombing at some point.

But that doesn't mean that the war ends at that point.

People in Iran could still be killing each other and dying.

They could still be firing things at people in the region.

I mean, the 12-day war was not a 12-day war.

It's still going on.

We don't describe World War II as

is a series of hundred different wars because at times we weren't – this is a stupid fucking way that they're trying to make the American people and their MAGA base in particular feel like they didn't just open Pandora's box because they did.

And look, Pete Hegg said this – you want the Secretary of Defense to be kind of sober and reassuring.