David French

That Iran will lash out at its enemies.

Iran will lash out in the Gulf.

It will do something to the Strait of Hormuz.

It will not be easy to reopen if Iran does it.

And he just YOLOs it anyway in this incredible sense of confidence that he's just going to get it right, obviously riding very high on his own supply after the remarkable success of the Madeiro raid, which was a legitimately tactically brilliant military raid.

But also, there was a lot of luck.

I mean, there was a heroic pilot who prevented the whole thing from going absolutely terribly sideways in the middle of the operation.

But he looks obviously looks at it as much more than luck.

He he's cracked the code.

He's figured this all out and he launches into this thing.

And you also begin to see why he didn't go to Congress.

It appears like he thought this was going to be a two, three day deal.

Like he'll do the decapitation strike, a few other strikes.

The Iranian regime falls.

The people rise up.

which is just breathtakingly naive.

Then when it doesn't work out the way he thought it would, because of course it wasn't, then he lashes out at all of our allies.

threatening NATO again.

Now, and this is completely misunderstands the NATO alliance.

It is a defensive alliance.