Mark Hertling

And Trump at the time said he wanted to take Iraqi oil and the oil company.

I tried to comment on CNN that the oil companies had already been in and it wasn't.

money-making venture for them, so they weren't going to do it.

These are the kind of questions that you ask and you plan for.

So when the actual strikes take place and you snatch the leader, even though he's a very bad guy out of the government, you kind of have a plan for who's going to take their place and what they're going to do very quickly.

That doesn't seem to be occurring right now.

To use your comment, it does seem like they've kind of, hey, it's over.

We've done what we needed to do.

And now what comes next?

We're not sure.

I don't know what's coming next in Venezuela.

Do you?

Do they?

And yet we've moved on already.

We're now thinking about Iran and Greenland.

So it is that scattershot of national security that is part of what they say in their doctrine.

They have the ends and the means.

They don't have the ways to execute a security strategy.

I've never been able to speak for the entire military.

There are certainly some leaders that are going to say, oh, this is great.