David French

That's one of the, that's sort of how you think through deterrence.

And I will guarantee you this, if this conflict ends with Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz, and...

with Iran knowing that at any given time it can achieve geostrategic objectives that it wants by closing the Strait of Hormuz, and that there is not the will to open the Strait of Hormuz, then I would say that Iran has probably emerged from this conflict with a greater level of deterrence than the United States has, in part because even though we are absolutely demolishing all of the targets that we're trying to hit,

we are seriously degrading Iran's military capacity, no question about it.

We're also dealing with a regime that really truly doesn't care about its losses in the same way that, say, a Western military does, in the same way that we would.

I mean, this is a regime that in the Iran-Iraq war

sent teenagers running across minefields to clear the minefields.

They do not care about the suffering of their people if they can achieve certain effects.

And so if they can, at the end of this conflict, achieve the effect of essentially dividing America from its allies, that's happening.

If they can achieve the effect of controlling the Strait of Hormuz, that's happening.

If they can achieve a even worse, even worse, guys, a sort of tolling effect, where in exchange for vast sums of money, they will let some people through and not others,

then we may have just created a system that helps enrich this regime, like literally enrich it so that even if their factories are demolished, if their missile stocks are depleted, they can go buy more missiles.

They can go use the windfall from controlling the Strait of Hormuz to buy more weapons and to reconstitute the force.

And I hate to keep harping on this, but it just really matters.

The original sin here is,

of not articulating a coherent plan, not going to Congress, not rallying the American people, democracies who go into war without public support do not fight those wars well, effectively, et cetera.

And that's what he did is he just yanked all of us in.

And it is costing us every day.

But David, what do you want to jump in with?

I just really want to underscore what Jamel said because I don't think people appreciate how much it is core to the ethos and worldview of MAGA that...