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Jesse Waters

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The Five
The Reviews Are In

Anyway, I agree.

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I mean, clearly there's not a lot of hands being raised in order to essentially like in the line to the execution guillotine.

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But I think what's interesting is as sort of the naysayers and as always the libs talking about the gap of alignment here, I think it's narrower than people think.

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And I think it's real, but it's not decisive.

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And from what I understand, diplomacy at this level, it's not about aligning endpoints.

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It's about sort of rationing your concessions.

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And the most important line in that was about the cost of war, essentially.

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like whether each side, when they decide what is the point at which the cost becomes too high to bear, we can keep going all day and all night, right?

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That's our biggest leveraging tool, that our commander-in-chief is flexible and that we have the military all day, all night.

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We can keep this up.

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We will keep killing everyone if they keep threatening.

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interests and our soldiers.

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And I think the whole point about that 15-point plan is that it's deferring the hardest issues and it's creating political wins on both sides.

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This is not about obviously appeasing the Islamic Republic in any way, but it's about getting them, if they want, to save a little bit of face, while for us saying, yeah, we're getting everything that we need, everything that we want.

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You are checking all of those boxes.

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And if you want to say, sure, the United States answered some of our concessions, feel free.

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But we are no matter what protecting American interests.

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And I think we are well on our way to doing so.

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And as Caroline keeps saying, we're doing it expeditiously way sooner than anyone predicted and way sooner than the White House predicted.