Melanie Phillips
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Jun
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I mean, how stupid is that?
But anyway.
So President Trump looked at that and said various things.
He said, we're going to take the Strait of Hormuz.
We're going to bomb Haag Island.
We're going to do this.
We're going to do that.
It's like King Lear, isn't it?
You know, I will do such things on the blasted heath.
And of course, he didn't do any of them because presumably his generals came along and said, sir, we can take Haag Island, but it's going to take boots on the ground and blood in the water.
And he said, I'm not doing that.
He wanted a war done in three or four weeks.
The Israelis...
I have to say, as a caveat, I don't know whether this is absolutely true because I only know what I'm reading and what I'm hearing.
I'm trying to form a conclusion based on reading very widely, listening to a lot of people.
What I'm reading, what I've read, is that the Israelis said to him right at the beginning, in our view, the only way to neutralize the Iranian regime is to take them out.
And we can only do that with a war that lasts a year.
And Trump said, you've got to be kidding me.
No way.
Three weeks, four weeks, max.
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