John Ganz

But he can also change course.

Unlike, say, he has some instinct that listening to Stephen Miller about every single thing is probably not the best idea, but he keeps them around.

It's both.

It's really remarkable.

I mean, you know, it's a war that had no public support.

I am...

not an expert in foreign policy in any way.

I read the news, just like a lot of Americans, and I've been following politics for most of my adult life.

Anybody who has half a brain knew that this was not going to end up in a way that was favorable to the United States or the world at large.

that it would be some kind of catastrophe.

In fact, this is kind of on the lower end of the catastrophes.

But it's a completely absurd situation.

We engaged in this war.

It didn't accomplish a single strategic goal for the United States.

They were talking in the beginning about regime change.

They're making all this noise, all this grandiose plans.

And then we basically have nothing like that.

And we're going to go to something that is kind of a weaker version of the JCPOA.

And, you know, it seems as if basically and this goes back to his decision making process, he was talked into it.

He thought it was a good idea.