General James Mattis

Israel, using hard power, had basically shattered two of the militias.

And was there an opportunity now to rock them back so far on their heels that the regime would fall?

That obviously has not happened, although it's been defanged in terms of its proxies, in terms of its

Nuclear program has been set back, but the regime is still there.

So basically, the war on a strategic level has not changed the overarching framing principle of what we have to deal with in that area.

And we will have to deal with it.

We can't walk away and say, sorry, we got distracted or we got tired of this.

We're going to have to deal with whatever comes out of this current war.

And I think it's going to include that regime still there that goes back to that that fateful year in 1979 in the Middle East.

Well, there you have it, folks.