David Frum

And let's give the American people the message you should have given it.

And maybe that message can't come from you.

You know, the reason we call it the Marshall Plan, the thing the United States did after World War II, was because President Truman at that point had lost the trust of Republicans in Congress.

And he said, if it's named for me, it won't happen.

He found George Marshall, who was the most admired man in the country, and said, this is your idea now.

So we need to find people who are admired, who are in the vicinity of the Trump administration, who can become the face of getting us out of this jam that President Trump has driven the country into.

As I said, I would not have pressed the go button.

I was not in favor of pressing the go button.

But the go button is pressed.

It can't be unpressed.

It would be a hard thing to say to somebody in that line of danger.

I hope what I'm about to say is true.

You've drilled this operation, you and your predecessors, every day for the past 50 years.

You are going to succeed.

And you're going to succeed at acceptable cost because you're in the United States Marine Corps.

And you've been thinking about this under precedence going back to Jimmy Carter.

I'm sure the planning started under Carter.

And it will work.

And you are doing this because the United States is at war with the world's leading state sponsor of terror that is the blood of many, many Americans on its hands.

And that has killed 40,000 of its own people in a matter of weeks.