Michael Knowles

And by the way, the New York Times has a real incentive to stoke division within the Trump admin.

And yet, what did they show here?

It's one of the reasons I kind of trust the reporting is they say, no, Vance and Rubio basically agreed on this.

as did the CIA director and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

And maybe Hegseth was a little more in favor of war in Iran, but they're not even that specific about that.

Yeah, the admin was basically united.

And Trump ultimately was persuaded that there should be some kind of strike on Iran, but he clearly doesn't want an open-ended war.

He said it would last about five weeks.

And guess what?

We have a ceasefire five and a half weeks in.

My takeaway from this is,

There's unity here in the administration.

There's sophistication.

Now, some people are going to say, well, what did we even get out of this war?

Okay, that's a separate question.

You people in the media and in the political class who were just completely wrong, spectacularly 180 degrees wrong about Trump dropping a nuclear weapon, about Trump perpetrating a genocide, about how long the war was going to go on.

You were just completely wrong about everything.

And now you have the temerity to come out and say, yeah, well, but we were actually right in principle.

You know, it's like, what was this war even for?

I'm I'm a skeptic of the strikes on Iran.