Katty Kay

I may be wrong.

I think we're in this position where he's weighing this up.

If there is some kind of an incident in the Gulf because of this

blockade against a blockade, then I think he may be forced into taking some sort of action.

If American warships are fired on, and God forbid if any American sailors were hurt, even worse, then I think he has no choice but to escalate.

Then he'll have to do it.

But he's going to try everything he can not to in the meantime.

And he wants out of there.

Okay, so it wouldn't have cost $125 billion in fighting, which the Secretary of Defense said, told Congress that it cost at the end of last week.

So you'd have saved that money.

It wouldn't have depleted America's stock of munitions, which has been seriously depleted.

You wouldn't have had American army bases in the region hit.

And apparently the reporting is coming out at the moment that they've been much worse hit than we were led to believe.

So you wouldn't have had that.

You obviously wouldn't have lost the lives of the Americans who have been involved in this.

And we don't know how many injured because the Pentagon won't tell us how many injured.

You wouldn't have had the losses of life that you've had in Iran.

You wouldn't have had a school being hit and children being killed there.

in those strikes, you wouldn't have had the loss of American prestige around the world.

You wouldn't have increased the rift between the Americans and the Europeans, which was bad and has now got a lot worse.