Bob Kagan

You know...

when they say, why aren't they helping us open the Strait?

Now, any operation to open the Strait with full buy-in by the Allies would have been 90% America anyway.

They don't have the capacity.

You know why they don't have the capacity?

Because we have the world's largest and most capable Navy in the first instance, and air power.

And the way we arranged things in the world was...

Everybody wouldn't have a world-class Navy.

How many world-class Navies do you want to have?

Do we going to have the France have a world-class Navy that was capable of opening straight by itself?

Was Germany going to have a world-class Navy?

No, we had a distribution where we were the ones with the world-class Navy.

And now we're asking them, why don't you just take care of this?

I can't, Trump is unbelievable.

He says, it's easy.

Why don't you just do it?

You know, we,

Here we are with all the firepower that we have, and we don't want to send our ship in because, as Hegs says, they're going to shoot at us.

But the Europeans should do that.

So the notion of saying that we can't do something because the Allies are not letting us, or that even if they're not letting us use their air bases in Spain, that had no effect on really what we were able to do here.