David Frum

I was against the Iran deal while it was being negotiated.

I was against signing the Iran deal in great part because Iran got its benefits up front.

The United States got its benefits on the back end.

Once signed, once you have made the mistake of signing a deal with the other guy gets his benefits signed up front, you don't tear up the deal.

He's already got the $90 billion unfrozen assets the Iranians got.

At that point, your next choice is having signed this stupid thing.

Enforce it.

Don't exit.

Yeah.

Well, that was the alternative.

The alternative was war.

The war we've now got.

No.

We're fighting over regime change that the administration won't acknowledge that it's doing.

And this is a problem of going in without allies and having alienated all the allies.

Supposing...

we get real lucky.

Supposing we find somebody who's, you know, assistant to the assistant to the president, who's got enough juice to, he survives, he's got enough juice to make his run.

And he says, right, we're dealing with the Americans and we're undertaking a transition to a better future.

We're leaving aside the anti-American ideology.