Michael Knowles

I trust Trump.

He's got a great record on foreign policy.

There are strategic objectives to be achieved in Iran, but I just would have made the arguments with the information I had available to me.

I would have argued against the strikes.

According to New York Times, Vance was doing the same thing, which reminds me, Vance, that guy's got a good head on his shoulders.

That guy's a very, very impressive leader.

It's very rare you get raw intelligence, which he obviously has, and a touch of connection to normal people, which Vance obviously has.

Read his memoir.

And

good political instincts.

Those three things don't always go together.

They do seem to go together in him.

In any case, what happened in the room?

According to the New York Times,

In the Situation Room, Bibi Netanyahu comes in.

He's making the hard pitch for Iran on February 11th.

Mr. Netanyahu made a hard sell, suggesting that Iran was ripe for regime change and expressing the belief that a joint U.S.-Israeli mission could finally bring an end to the Islamic Republic.

The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, who President Trump calls central casting, Ratcliffe used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister's regime change scenarios, farcical.

You know...

I was making the same arguments.