Bob Kagan

But for the most part, it's been open skies.

We've been able to bomb Iran at will, hit everything that we want to hit with remarkable, you know, accuracy and the brilliance of our forces and their equipment, et cetera.

And yet here we are.

And I think we're, you know, we are still more losing this war than winning it because we can't finish

it off with what is going to be required if we want to, which is a full-scale ground invasion of Iran.

You know, because there's no way, you know, we can get into this, but, you know, how to open the strait is not something that's going to be accomplished by air and sea power alone, which is witnessed by the fact that we're sending ground troops to the region.

So I was always skeptical that you could get where you wanted to get to by air alone, and now that is just...

Right.

And in addition to which, you know, for those like myself who would like and you, I'm sure, who would like to see the Iranian people freed from the brutal tyranny that they've been suffering under the mullahs.

Donald Trump is not the person to deliver them from that.

And now he is talking about sending.

not just the mullahs, but the Iranian people back to the Stone Age where they belong, as he so felicitously put it.

So his concern for the Iranian people is something less than zero.

And so, you know, I don't know what outcome anybody ever expected him to accomplish in this situation.

I'm certainly seeing passion.

He seems to be very passionate about killing as many people as he can possibly kill, blowing things up.

He loves to watch pictures of blowing things up.

Maybe that makes him very passionate.

bragged about it like which are civilian targets yeah so anyway on the f-15 and and now the kind of missing airmen and and the bridge and any thoughts on either of those items you know when you carry out a military operation you're you're going to have bad events take place i mean the the general ford had to go back because there was a fire in the laundry which military people who

much more than I do say, is not completely inconsistent with a deployment which has gone on for well over a year.