Bob Kagan
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As people have pointed out, even if the war literally ended tomorrow and everything, that straight open tomorrow, it'll be months before we see these effects.
Also, I do wonder, by the way, can the military do all this, you know, without cracking?
You know, these...
These aircraft carrier battle groups now that are serving in the Gulf have been on station for a very long time.
People are not getting leave.
The military is canceling training exercises because they're running out of money.
And now we're going to have to devote another aircraft carrier battle group to Cuba, in addition to the ones that we've got in the Gulf, which, again, are all detracting from our defenses in Asia.
Yeah.
against China.
So I'm not sure militarily we're not straining the military to the point of cracking.
Setting aside my concern, which is not really worth setting aside, about the domestic consequences of Trump being at war, which I think we have still yet to fully discover.
If we're going to be at war for several months, the opportunities for declaring national security issues on one thing or another, arresting protesters because they're domestic terrorists, et cetera, we haven't fully gone down this road.
But more from a strategic point of view,
I did not believe that bombing alone was going to solve our problem with Iran.
And this is we somehow forgot.
You know, we learned this lesson in the 1990s.
There was this great idea, especially after the decimation of the of the Iraqi army in Kuwait in the you know, in the first Gulf War.
where our missiles, our airplanes, just completely decimated their force, really.
And then it was just a matter of mopping up at the end.
And this gave, I think, Americans and American strategists even a great perception that we could really accomplish our goals pretty much through air power alone.
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