Charles C.W. Cooke
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 29 Jul
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And this isn't being pedantic.
The one thing I would disagree with is you said we don't have the muscle.
We do have the muscle, but we don't have the will to use that muscle.
Donald Trump is on this issue a lot more hawkish than the American public is.
Now, I think that's probably a fact of where Americans are, but also he made absolutely no effort to alter that.
He didn't make a case to the public.
He didn't try and sway them initially.
And so he ended up in a much more hawkish position than the electorate.
And that left him stranded where he'd gone in.
He had made some grand pronouncements about what we were going to achieve, most of which I thought were worthwhile announcements.
in a vacuum, getting rid of the terrible Iranian government, taking out their nuclear program, and so forth.
But then when they use their agency to fight back, mostly by closing the Strait of Hormuz,
Trump had a choice.
He either escalated it, which would probably have included boots on the ground and some more American losses, or he got out.
And I think that's what's happened.
They've decided to get out because they're just not willing to pay that price.
Now, the one caveat I have, which I keep repeating, is
That, in one sense, is a failure of what they were trying to do.
But I don't think it necessarily follows that we are in a worse place now than we were prior to this, or at least prior to our bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities before this foray.
It's a different story.
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