Mark Hertling

You know, you've got to go in and kill them all.

Well, the IRGC consists of estimates about 200,000 people.

The Bajis consist of another 600,000.

So there are those who say we've got to destroy these security forces so the regime can collapse and the uprising can occur.

But that's a pretty major mission for any military force.

It certainly isn't going to be conducted by bombings, which seems to be the first resort of recent presidents across the board.

You know, if we can get airstrikes in, people think we're doing something.

But...

When you're talking about the IRGC spread across parts of Iran, what they're capable of doing, and the supporting militias they have behind them, it's a pretty big force.

And even if you're lucky enough to kill all of them, which you certainly wouldn't be able to do when you're talking about a million people, which is more than the US Army, by the way, you've got some concerns about what's going to happen next.

Are the hardliners in government going to blame

the great Satan for doing what they're doing and killing all these people.

Certainly, the people who are protesting want to see their enforcers, the ones that are subjecting them to the death and the suffering, killed or done away with.

But surgical airstrikes are not going to do that.

And even beyond that, Tim, you've got to take a look at who are the forces in the area.

The carrier strike group forward has been taken out of the Arabian Gulf and the Mediterranean to go to Venezuela.

Because we sent it to—

But breaking news, as you just mentioned before we went on, if we're talking about Qatar, you know, that's where our major air base is in the Middle East.

And if we're bringing forces out of there, according to the presidential order.

Yeah, that's going to knock the forces down even more.