Jake Sullivan

He's awarded the FIFA Peace Prize a few weeks ago.

Very prestigious.

Very prestigious.

And then turns around and says, no, no, I'm getting right back into this game.

And the question is why?

And I think a lot of it is that the appetite for him has grown with the eating.

He did the bombing of the nuclear facility last year.

Total obliteration, as he put it.

He does Maduro.

He doesn't feel there are a lot of consequences, to your point about consequences and blowback.

He doesn't feel that, at least not immediately.

There are those of us like you who are warning at the time there's going to be a bill to be paid for this down the road.

He didn't see that.

So then he thinks, I can go to war against Iran

on a basis that could be up to and including regime change, and the Iranians aren't going to do anything in response.

Therefore, I don't even need to prepare to protect the Strait of Hormuz.

And that, I think, has been the fundamental flaw here, a belief that...

despite all the evidence we have from Iraq and Afghanistan, that when we get into these kinds of Middle Eastern wars, they do not work out well for us, and we need to turn the page on them.

Forget about Middle Eastern wars, South American wars, Central American wars.

We are a regime change machine all over the world, and we're so overly extended.