Jeffrey Goldberg

people should take away is that the thing that he says on a Monday is unrelated to the thing that he will say on a Tuesday and the thing that he will do on a Wednesday.

It's not, there's no linear quality to this.

There's no strategy, as we know, which is a problem, going to have a war without a strategy and without a goal, without an articulated set goal for it.

There are

There are a number of wars going on there, but let's talk about two wars.

The first war is the CENTCOM-run war, the military-run war.

Plans on plans on plans.

They are, from what we can tell, 50% to 70% through their target list, degrading and destroying missile capacity, nuclear capacity, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Right?

Those plans have been there and updated every day for years, and they're operating on it.

Then there's the war as it exists in his mind, in the president's mind, the commander-in-chief's mind.

Now, usually, in times of war, there's a lockup between what's happening inside the commander-in-chief's head and what's happening inside.

in reality, on the ground.

There's no such lockup now, as far as we can tell.

So when people ask, what do you think is going to happen tomorrow?

It seems, let's use the Strait of Hormuz right now.

Iran has given us 10 ships.

If I steal your car and say, I'm going to give you two of the tires back, you don't go on television and brag about that.

Two of the tires back for one day.

For a day.