David Pakman

And all of a sudden, instead of listen, it's three to four weeks.

That's over.

We've been there a month.

They have to go with something else.

Now, J.D.

Vance could go listen.

I don't think we're going to be there more than more than a few months.

All right, well, that would only be one or two more months.

But he's saying, I don't think we're going to be there one to two years.

They also understand something else, which is the American people have very little appetite for another long foreign conflict right now.

So instead of just giving us the most likely timeline up front, they move it slowly but surely and you adjust expectations.

Well, we've already been there a month.

And then listen, maybe if we're there five months, they'll go, this is not going to be a multi-year thing.

OK, so we're five months into maybe a 12 month thing.

It's all this is it's a known strategy.

You sometimes see it, by the way, with airline flight delays.

We're going to need 10 more minutes before we can board.

We're just sorting something out.

Listen, folks, we're going to try to prevent a delay of longer than an hour.

And then you go, well, it's already been 10, 15 minutes.