Michael Weiss

Or have they simply refrained from doing it because they didn't want to provoke us into going all in with a full-scale land invasion occupation kind of thing?

That said, as time goes by, they may decide that now's the time to kind of test the waters here and to get our licks in, right?

The aforementioned U.S.

intelligence official I met with, I kind of painted a scenario for this person and said, this is kind of how I see things going in future.

You tell me if I'm wrong.

The scenario is tantamount to what the Israelis euphemistically called mowing the grass or mowing the lawn.

In other words, every several months when they see –

Untoward activity, weapons transfers, the rebuilding of something that they feel the Iranians or that some foreign state adversary or non-state adversary should not have, they go in and they bomb.

It's not a full-scale war.

It's not 12 days.

Sometimes it's an overnight operation, but they just do that, right?

Here, it's more complicated for the Israelis because Iran is much farther away than Lebanon, Syria, certainly Gaza.

But that doesn't mean that we're not going to help them with refueling or even base sharing rights or perhaps even joining in some operations like this, right?

So Iran, right now, it lacks air defense systems.

Its skies are completely vulnerable to our air superiority, if not air supremacy.

The question is,

does that become the status quo?

And do the Iranians just kind of continue to take it as we dole it out to them?

And I think the interesting thing here is, you know, in foreign policy, it's kind of easy to set a new normal, right?

George W. Bush took a decision, Iran must not get nuclear weapons.