Mark Halperin

can walk away without achieving that portion, that vital and difficult portion of this mission.

And, of course, the nuclear weapons.

That has been the main go-to argument for every president, including this one and its spokespeople.

They cannot be a nuclear power.

We cannot allow them to be a nuclear power.

The ballistic missiles, the Navy, the terror networks want to eliminate those too, but it's about being a nuclear power.

And as far as we know, nothing's been done on that.

And so when you say, well, the president could just walk away, that nuclear material, as far as we know, remains in the country.

And here's finally what makes this so devilishly challenging for the president, who said no quagmires, no forever wars, no massive loss of American life or spending American treasure.

Here's what makes it complicated, which is he's in now.

He said we're going to open the strait.

We're going to defeat the Iranian regime, which is intact in a sense.

This is from Eurointelligence, a great daily newsletter that my friend John Ellis wrote.

recommends regularly and cites regularly in his newsletter.

Quote, it is very common for the sacrifices one makes in war to cause them to dig in.

A very tragic and damaging example of the sunk cost fallacy.

And this is what we saw in Vietnam.

It's what we saw in Afghanistan.

It's what we saw in Iraq.

Presidents say, I've spent all this money.