Mark Dubowitz

I mean, I think it could be at certain costs.

I think we're week three.

And already Americans are saying it's not worth it because we're at week three and gasoline's gone up by 40%, so it's not worth it.

I don't wanna speak to that.

It's a difficult question for each individual American to have to assess.

But I think as an American, I am furious that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been killing, maiming, torturing, kidnapping Americans since 1979.

And we've done very little about that, Ross.

And if it means Republicans losing the House or losing the Senate, I mean, that's not for me to decide.

That's for the president to decide.

That's his calculation politically.

And maybe he's made the calculation that it is worth it, and maybe he'll be proven right, and maybe he'll be proven wrong.

But you're absolutely right.

I mean, I think we should be prepared to pay some price against...

an enemy that is an American enemy that would have developed nuclear warhead carrying intercontinental ballistic missiles that threaten the American homeland.

And with that, they would have had a stranglehold on Hormuz, not for three weeks, not for six weeks, but effectively forever.

And then we would have been susceptible to this regime, this nuclear armed regime that had a stranglehold in the global economy.

I think it was worth...

preempting that and stopping that and weakening the regime and not ever getting into that end state.

And by the way, we've spent a little time, but not enough time talking about the fact that there are 80% of Iranians, about 70 million Iranians who despise this regime and have been on the streets repeatedly for year after year and year after year, who've been brutalized, tortured, killed.

taken prisoner.