Brandon Weikert

But ultimately, if you look at how we've escalated so far.

No, sir.

No, I think it's too late.

I think there's too many hands on the wheel.

And I think the wild card, as always, are the Israelis.

And I talked with Yaakov Armador on Monday of last week.

And Yaakov is the national security advisor to Netanyahu.

And Yaakov tells me.

They're going to keep doing what's in the Israelis national interest, no matter what.

So that to me indicates the Israelis are planning to push ahead, even if we decide to get cold feet.

So this is the problem why I say there's too many hands on the wheel.

So there, there, we are stuck, Steve, unfortunately, this is the essence of a quagmire and I hope and pray that I am wrong, but I haven't been so far.

And it looks like we are going to be introducing some component of ground forces, however limited.

And there are no good options there.

None of the potential landing sites are going to work.

It's going to be Gallipoli or some weird Tom Clancy novel that doesn't go according to plan.

Thank you.

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