David Frum

And it turns out he could weigh more than Paul Wolfowitz.

MARK BLYTH Yeah.

When you read the story saying they didn't plan for the Strait of Hormuz, I'm sure that the United States Navy

There's a whole floor of the building that has spent the past 50 years thinking about what happens if the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

There's probably not a plan.

There are probably eight plans.

All kinds of options with cool names.

Actually, pre-Trump, so they're uncool names.

But you have to prepare.

The Iranians might really do this.

And Mr. President, have you considered which of those plans you will choose?

Have you consulted with the American people about how you will embrace them?

for the shocked oil prices it's going to.

And he just said, I'm not thinking, I'm just going to assume they don't do it.

Not because the Navy didn't think about it, but because he refused to consider the worst case or even the mid-case scenario.

And this is the most probable thing the Iranians would do, and they don't seem to have taken it seriously at all.

And to add to that, they said last summer, President Trump struck out of the clear blue yonder, the Iranian nuclear program.

I don't think any American or very few Americans would be sorry about that, although they might be troubled by the legalities of it.

And then he said, mission accomplished.

We did it.