Bob Kagan

And it turns out we're not interested in the Iranian people either.

Is this just for Israel's protection?

Was this entire war for Israel's protection?

Is this a crusade?

You know, you've got Pete Tegseff, you know, saying, God, give us the power to smite our enemy, which is this like a Christian fight against Muslims?

You know, I'd love to know, really.

Well, you know, I do think it's worth just going through what we all know, but it's worth repeating.

What is the origin of American involvement here?

Because, you know, clearly Trump was hoping to sort of bluster his way into getting the Iranians to accept some kind of deal in which they would give up their nuclear weapons.

But, you know, that that was ongoing.

But what what happened was.

Our intelligence showed that the mullahs and their whole leadership was going to have a meeting in the daytime.

And we passed that information on to the Israelis and the Israelis and Bibi basic said, look, I have an opportunity to take out the whole leadership.

Should we, you know, should we just go ahead and do it?

And I think Trump thought he saw a freebie here.

The interesting thing about this, we're all like beating our chests about how great the American military is.

And it is great.

And I'm not saying it isn't.

But it wasn't the American military that took the initial step of taking out Iran's air defenses, which is the most dangerous element of the operation and which the United States would not have done because it was too risky for the stakes.

Israel, because of October 7th, completely changed its risk calculus and was basically, we have to do whatever we need to do.