Dan Pfeiffer

They, these, these are hugely complicated negotiations, but if they're on a path towards a deal, maybe they straight will stay open.

We will stop bombing.

Importantly, there will be a ceasefire in Lebanon with Israel like that.

That is all important and good.

But Donald Trump's best case scenario is probably a slightly lesser version of the deal that he ripped up in 2018.

So this was like, to what end was all of this to just end up right where we were before?

Even if a deal gets done, there are some longer term consequences here because there really was like why the Iranian regime.

is quite radical and quite anti-American.

There was a growing, there were whole generations of Iranians who were raised to not necessarily hate America.

They were looking for a more modern version of their country.

And we've now, you know, we blew up a girl's school.

We've been bombing their country.

We've bombed their country a couple of times now.

We've set back the possibility that one day this regime will leave, and the one that comes in will be one that's more friendly to America.

It has set the US back in that longer-term effort, once again, to go right back to where we were in 2015.

One thing I've heard from people over the last – since Trump's been reelected from people abroad or people who work in foreign policy is our allies, international organizations in the world, were willing to sort of accept the idea that Donald Trump's first election was this black swan event that just happened.

He didn't even get the plurality or majority of votes.

There were all these crazy circumstances.

It happened.

The U.S.