Jessica Tarlov

It's like poetic justice in some way.

Is that right?

I don't know.

It is ironic, to say the least.

And I love that Zelensky, you know, their drop of a hat.

I will help you absolutely, even though we have ignored his requests, denied his requests, and continue to waffle on the conflict, the existential conflict that the Ukrainians are in.

I mean, the execution going poorly or that argument, apparently in actual targets that have been taken out, etc., it has gone well.

There isn't a level of effectiveness to this, which you would expect if it's the American military and the Israelis and all of our Gulf partners.

The problem is more, to your point, about the lack of preparation and then the what next and the follow through to that.

And there's been reporting that Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth are fighting internally about the boots on the ground element, where Rubio does not want that to be the case.

And Pete Hegseth is all for it, you know, just finish the job.

no matter what.

And to have that kind of internal feuding with people in those levels of positions, you're not talking about like rando staffers having a disagreement, right?

You're talking about the two guys besides the president who need to be on the same page of that.

And there is nothing that is going to matter more to the American public than whether American men and women are going to die for this.

And it also feeds the flames of the argument over how much of the timing was based on Israel's schedule versus our schedule.

And I think you nailed it in pointing out the fact that there are tens of thousands of Americans or Westerners that are left sitting in hotels, apartments with no way to get out of there.

Private jet travel costs like $250,000 to get out.

And I saw that also people are taking their pets because they don't think that they're ever going to be able to go back.

Right.