Kurt Mills

But it's another thing to not really understand or have faith in the course of action that looks a lot like George W. Bush, that looks a lot like George W. Bush's second term.

And meanwhile, the Democrats can dust off the 2006-2007 playbook and run the anti-war movement thing.

Yeah, it'll be very cynical because the Democrats continued a lot of these wars.

They expanded a lot of these wars, but it doesn't matter.

Cynicism wins all the time in politics and they can try to run it.

And then finally, one other domestic parallel that I think should be flagged from history, Barack Obama,

came in as an anti-war president, and he saw his own ranks demotivated by what they saw as an establishment sellout presidency.

And that led to the rise of Bernie Sanders.

And I think, you know, it should not be discounted.

It is very early in the political calendar, but there could be a serious new populist right backlash to an already populist right administration.

What are results?

The decapitation of the regime, is that even particularly preferable?

Because, I mean, the U.S.

will then be responsible for the transition.

And I think the U.S.

will have to handle the transition.

The Israelis won't.

Yeah, Pottery Barn rule, right?

I mean, Colin Powell was right about this.

I mean, I think Colin Powell should have resigned for the Bush administration rather than advocate for a war he didn't believe in.