General James Mattis

But like Hemingway's point about how a man went broke gradually and then suddenly, it is a very fragile regime in terms of its grip, but it's strong enough with its murder

and all they've told for example they've told the iranian parents don't let your sons and daughters demonstrate because we will shoot them we will you we will go after them so no they're not going to go away anywhere right right now i would not think that they're going to break so you've summarized one of your leadership techniques as um and especially on the battlefield as clearly stating the purpose

As you can see, the lady does her homework.

Um, the, uh...

It's murky.

It is murky right now to understand what we in the military call the commander's intent.

And we've heard things like unconditional surrender, we will select the next leader.

We've heard all sorts of things, frankly, and it's been murky and it's hard to articulate an end state

that's achievable.

For example, as the American president has said, it just takes a couple of people to screw up the Gulf because they can get down there in their fishing boats and drop mines in and Lloyd's of London injects the insurance rates up and people don't want to send their ships through.

And for the American president to say, well, you know, they're just going to have to show guts.

Let me tell you, I've been in minefields and I hate them.

And every ship can be a minesweeper once.

But that's not the way you want to find the mines, I guarantee you.

So right now, yeah, it's pretty confused.

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We have seen one administration after another try to find what I call the fruitless pursuit of the Iranian moderate somewhere in that regime.

And we haven't found him yet, okay?

It doesn't exist.

This is a regime, like if the CIA is analyzing the regime, to show you how we learn about them, they have a list of