Megyn Kelly

The regime didn't moderate.

And it signaled from the outset, this is an existential fight, right?

Do everything you can.

Go close the strait.

Whereas if it had been a more limited campaign at the outset where you said we're not targeting the leadership, we've seen this before, we did a version of it last year, but if you go after the strait, then we target everything.

your leadership.

Then we know where all the bunkers are and you guys are going to die in the middle of the night.

Then maybe they don't close the Strait.

But once they close the Strait and we hadn't properly prepared for it, a mistake that really goes to the top and Trump's over-optimism about everything.

He was over-optimistic about the war.

Now he's over-optimistic about the peace deal.

Once that happened, we're headed to inevitably, I think, to a disappointing outcome.

Well, that's another reason.

I mean, the number one reason that we, I think, are lamenting the fact that this was launched to begin with is the loss of our troops, our 13 military personnel.

But

But the other thing is the Strait was open before we launched this war.

So after that June bombing 12 months ago of their nuclear facilities, we had what we needed.

There was really no reason to go back in there.

And we could have just said – we could have continued the negotiation that Witkoff and Kushner were doing, come up with some, again, like JCPOA, Trump version –

where they agree and we have monitoring, which we haven't been having since Trump tore up the JCPOA that Obama negotiated.