Dave Smith

Oh, that was on my end.

Sorry.

They go, oh, look, he just did a gas attack or whatever.

And then Obama didn't go in.

He got too much pushback.

At least initially, he started funding covert rebels.

But regardless of that, I remember every one of these hawks used to always say, you can't have a president throw out a red line and then not follow through.

Because, of course, they were trying to get him to launch the war.

But Donald Trump just throwing out red line after red line and then completely capitulating, I guess, isn't that doesn't hamper national security anymore.

That doesn't make for a weak commander in chief.

None of them have an ounce of of power.

consistency or integrity on this issue but yeah it's just i i don't know it's like it's very clearly black and white donald trump made all these threats made all these demands said this was what the war was about he's getting none of that and now he's saying he wants to make a deal

By the way, I want to be clear on this, because as I did say this at the beginning and that I'm cautiously optimistic about all of this, this is good.

This is a lot better than what it could have been.

Now, by the way, I said emphasis on the caution because we still don't know.

And this still could go back to a hot war any second.

Yeah.

But like, it's at least good that they're saying, yeah, end the goddamn war and then pretend some deal is coming.

And then when we don't get any of that deal, make up some other excuse.

Honestly, this is the best we can hope for at this point.