Lori Siegel

They're like, we can't enter an open-ended, some sort of fake ceasefire where Israel just gets to continue to attack us every day.

The only option is to continue to bomb the shit out of them and continue to bomb us.

So the existing...

framework and infrastructure is not a real pathway to real peace with this conflict.

So you can actually see how Trump's preference for deal-making is to keep everything open-ended, where you're dealing with an adversary which can still punch back, not like Hamas could, which could only internally, but could actually inflict some sort of damage and remains largely politically intact.

Well, they're never going to accede to that.

The only way to get them to do that would be to invade and to occupy them.

And yeah, we can.

We could do that.

It would be a nightmare, right?

Politically, for the people of Iran and also our own service members.

Yeah, I mean, I think in Vietnam, I'm looking it up.

I want to say it was several hundred thousand at its absolute peak.

Yeah, 543,000 troops in country.

In Vietnam.

And that's South Vietnam, which is half of Vietnam, which is not a very big country.

Now compare that to Iran, right?

So, I mean, when I say we could do it, like we could do it politically, like we could take over Tehran and a few of the population centers.

Can you truly occupy the whole country?

No, I mean, even that, and why would you even want to, right?