Greg Myre

and Israel.

So it's really hard to see how that would happen.

And just very quickly, I would point to Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Israel has bombed Gaza for two years, had troops in the territory.

Gaza is a small place with just two million people.

And after more than two years, Hamas is still effectively in control of the Palestinian population there.

So if Israel couldn't, in effect, bring regime change to Gaza, how are you going to do it in this much larger country of Iran with a short military campaign and no troops on the ground?

Yeah, the president laid out some of the goals he's hoping to achieve, again, of going after the missile program and the Navy there.

And he also gave us a sense of how long he thinks the war might last.

And I would just caution, it's very risky to try to predict how long a war is going to last.

Things always happen that you don't expect.

So we'll have to see about that.

But at least it tells you

what he's thinking about.

He also added that the U.S.

is ahead of its own timeline in the sense that a lot of Iran's leaders were killed.

They didn't think that was going to happen right away.

So there could be all of these variables that play into this to either shorten or lengthen a conflict.

At least we have some idea about what the president's thinking.

We were literally hearing more from Iranian officials.