Greg Myre

It's about this Islamic Shiite clerical regime, which has bedeviled every single U.S.

president since then.

Well, we don't, other than the fact that he's clearly planning to achieve regime change, to wipe out a lot of what Iran has on the military front.

So that's going to take time.

So that, I would think, would be point number one.

The other key point, though, is we still don't see any likelihood of ground troops.

The U.S.

does have ground troops scattered around these bases in the Middle East, a few tens of thousands scattered.

It may sound like a lot, but when you're dealing with a country of 90 million people, it's not that many.

They're not in the same place.

They're not gathered together near the Iranian border.

So you won't see ground troops.

And again, that's from a military perspective means you plan to have few or no casualties because you have a small number of pilots and planes and sailors on ships that are well protected, but you don't have the ground troops.

Yeah, those last two lines really jumped out at me instantly because it's undeniable he's calling for regime change.

It tells you about his approach.

It tells you the kinds of risks he's willing to take here.

And it's also just so striking because Trump has been saying since he first started running for president in 2015-16 that he would keep the U.S.

out of these open-ended wars.

And yet,

Here we are again in the Middle East right next door to Iraq where you saw arguably the most difficult U.S.