Bob Kagan
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And you may remember, I don't know how much you were paying attention, but people like Don Rumsfeld and a guy who used to be a big
She's named Richard Pearl, had this idea that you could pretty much cut the armed forces of the United States by a third and just do everything, you know, with missiles and bombs.
And so and the Clinton administration tried to accomplish a lot through air power.
You know, they bombed Saddam Hussein for four days in 1998, 99, and that didn't really do anything.
Then there was the long bombing campaign against Slobodan Milosevic in 99, which was supposed to be over in three days and then went on for three months.
And it really wasn't until we threatened to send in troops.
that he capitulated.
Anyway, long, long way of saying we have learned before that bombing alone wasn't going to do it.
And now we've had the most abject demonstration possible because it has been a free fly pretty much, although we just lost a
an F-15, apparently.
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.
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