David Frum

They are eliminating Iran's ability to do offensive attacks.

Those attacks are becoming more ragged, more poorly aimed.

And the Iranians are being pressed to do stupid things like shoot at everybody, including the Turks, whom they shouldn't be shooting at.

People – they ought to be looking to make some kind of ally out of – they've made an enemy out of the Turks.

They're making an enemy out of the Gulf states.

And the Israelis in particular are destroying the security apparatus of the regime, but with these highly targeted attacks on checkpoints, on officials who have done monstrous crimes.

So that part, I think, is succeeding.

And although it's hard to see the resolution, if you look at one of those military matrices and you say, where do you want to be on X day?

I think they would say that everyone is completely satisfied with where they are on whatever day of the war this is today.

I guess it's day 22, something like that.

It's the political track, and there are two political tracks.

One is, where are we going?

What's the goal?

Trump's idea seems to be that you hit the Iranians enough and they negotiate.

That puts all the initiative in the Iranian hands.

All they have to do is not negotiate, and sooner or later, Trump gives up.

Not the Israelis, but Trump.

And the second problem is, and this is the bigger one, he has no permission structure.

He has no authorization from Congress.

He has no certainty that Congress will fund his war.