Jeffrey Goldberg

So he sounds like he's ready to give up

Something that we had before this war, which was control of free access to the Strait of Hormuz, which, of course, is connected to our economy because the economy in America is affected by the economy in other countries.

I don't need to try to explain that.

No, I know.

But I mean, it's like, yeah, yeah.

You know, it's like if prices forget it, I can't.

It gets frustrating.

Yeah, and if the U.S.

has, since the close of World War II, been the guarantor of free and open shipping lanes, it has always been the guarantor in modern history of the Persian Gulf.

We've had wars in the Persian Gulf in order to keep the Persian Gulf open.

So you start a war where you're supposed to defeat the country that legitimately threatens free trade and free movement of oil and gas, and you can't end up

You can't end up with a war that ends with your enemy in control of something that your enemy wasn't in control of before and can't claim that's a victory.

Now, in a reality distortion field, you can say to the world, we won.

But the world won't buy it, and reality won't buy it.

So in other words, when he talks about two to three weeks, I think that's because he's hearing from his military commanders, this is what we've done.

This is what we can do.

Give us the order.

How far do you want us to go?

That goes in a kind of orderly way.

But the opposite of orderly is what's going on day to day in his statements and in his plans, right?