Dave Lawler

Right.

There have been signs that we've been heading in this direction.

for a while, and so it's interesting to me that it has not captured more of the debate here in D.C., and we're not really hearing the progressive opposing case, or I'm not.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, Don, but I'm not seeing a very vocal argument from the other side against this sort of operation.

us, trying to guess from what we're seeing move around in the world.

I mean, the amount of military equipment that we're moving there doesn't seem like a bluff.

And it also doesn't seem like it's something where the president cares one way or another how any of these negotiations turn out.

Because when you move that much stuff into the theater, I think it was Bob Dylan who said, when you got a lot of knives and forks, you got to cut something.

Now, if there's some other, if there's some diplomatic purpose, if he's trying to convince the Iranians that this time he's really serious, that's a lot of movement and energy and cost.

uh to put forces in place so i i don't think it's that the question now is what is it what is the purpose of this that whether these talks succeed or fail um that the president wants to attack iran and you know what does that mean what would we be attacking what would we be trying to achieve

And I don't think, you know, we haven't had any public debate about this.

There's been no discussion of it.

Congress, you know, Republicans in Congress are, again, AWOL.

And the peace president is about to launch a war with, you know, a president.

a country of 90 million people.

So I'm not clear on what he thinks he's going to achieve, but it looks like no matter what we do, no matter what happens in these negotiations, the president seems kind of bent on some kind of military action.

I don't know.

I mean, I think on the one hand, there is that rhetoric that comes out of the White House that says we're going to end the Iranian nuclear program one way or another, of course.

Supposedly, we did that months ago.

But that would be a sustained, to do something like that, you'd have to have a sustained bombing campaign in multiple places across Iran.