Jon Favreau

And he saw the you know, in the 12 day war when they bombed Iran, like that went off relatively easily without a hitch as well.

And so he just thought this would be the same.

And he also sees it as a legacy item.

He thinks, oh, well, no president's done this in 47 years.

There's also a good piece in The Atlantic today.

Jonathan Lemire wrote about how for Trump, it's 1979 again, and he's stuck in the 80s and 1979, and in 1979, the popular political thing to say was like, Carter was too soft on Iran.

And, you know, we would have if he had just bombed Iran then it would have been better.

And so like because Trump's always frozen in time, he's still thinking that it's like the 80s and that he's going to be the guy who couldn't do what presidents could try to do for 47 years and changed a theocracy in Iran.

I know, because he also watched Iraq unfold.

And, you know, I mean, he claims to be opposed to that now.

But what he was opposed to was when it all went south, he wanted to be on the side of saying, yeah, this is bad and what a catastrophe.

And also, oh, he should have taken the oil.

His lesson in Iraq is like, don't send in a whole bunch of ground troops and take the oil.

And so which I guess is why he hasn't sent in ground troops yet to Iran.

But who knows?

Because the war continues.

It's a very fragile ceasefire that has almost fallen apart numerous times.

It may yet fall apart by the time they get to Islamabad this weekend.

Right.

Because Israel continues to just bomb the hell out of Lebanon and Beirut, a densely populated urban area.