Lori Siegel

Absolutely.

So what you're seeing is a lot of wish casting.

And this is why we talked earlier, and Trump actually reminds me a lot of LBJ.

I think we're going to talk a lot about this with him.

Professor Pape, in that LBJ was the ultimate dealmaker, the ultimate consummate Washington politician.

His problem always is he would apply that dealmaking, domestic political skill to war with Ho Chi Minh, who fundamentally was an anti-colonialist communist, who was like, I will basically never make a deal with you.

I have the ultimate and total objective of keeping my country first safe and second of the reunification of the

taking it over.

There was no deal really to be made.

There was only just, we have to get out.

And that's very difficult for these type of people to accept.

He would say over and over again, I'm not going to be the first son of a bitch to lose a war, like the first American president.

And you can watch how Trump is trying to do what he did in politics to great, obviously for victory for himself.

He's trying to shape the conversation.

He's making sure and pushing things.

He's like, they want to negotiate so bad, but I'm not.

gonna let them.

That works maybe when you're dealing with Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi, it works when you're dealing with Ted Cruz in the 2016 primary, but doesn't work whenever you're dealing with an enemy who you basically have given no choice.

You declare unconditional surrender, you've killed the Ayatollah, you've made it a war of total survival on their part, and you've actually, so far,

have ballooned their ego because the Iranians are right now in the best pole position that they could be.