Matt Boyle

Well, look, I mean, if, if they, if we are on a path to a conflict, which I would agree with your assessment, it seems like we are, um, again, if it really is very quick over and on, I think the president will be viewed as a, as a massive success, but

if it turns into a long drag out thing, right?

Like, I mean, they're talking about what three or four weeks right now.

Well, that's what they were saying at the beginning of Iraq, right?

Like, uh, you know, and then a decade or so later, we were still there.

Right.

So like the question is, is can the president do something quick and, uh, you know, not protracted and not long.

And is the objective, uh, uh, uh, achieved very quickly in our, uh, American lives protected.

If that's the case, then, uh,

He's going to go down as an incredible leader if he gets us dragged into a long, protracted war that destabilizes the region.

I think when we got cut off there, I was just talking about when the connection dropped for me.

We were just talking about how Greek people – I've been talking to lots of different Greek people, both inside and outside government –

And they are all talking about this and whether or not it may or may not destabilize the region.

Everybody understands that this has worldwide consequences that will ripple across Europe, that will go into Asia, over to the United States.

And so will this undercut the president's broader agenda of rewriting the global economic order?

in a manner that helps America first with the trade deals that he's been doing around the world?

Will it undercut the energy agenda that he's achieving?

Or will it, again, just be a quick in-and-out type of a thing?

I don't know the answers to those questions.

I can't see the future.