Mike Baker

And it'll be a brand new day.

You'll have, you know, a new opportunity for the people of Iran.

You'll get long term stability in the region.

All these things.

I think people were a little intoxicated with this idea.

and we're willing to look away from this long long history of and and the reality of how complicated this this this is are you with it and now i'm climbing off my soapbox now but david are you what do you think about this my my concern here with this ceasefire of discussions is that as you pointed out the white house is very keen to get out of this with what they can describe as a victory

And my concern is that they are going to make concessions to this existing Iranian regime in an effort to rush to what they can call a deal, a peace deal.

And I don't see how they extricate themselves from this while the Iranians know that their possible only point of leverage is the Strait of Hormuz.

I know that's it.

So there's a question in there somewhere, David.

I'll let you run with it.

Yeah, I think you're spot on.

Look, we don't have, just because of the way the world has changed and kind of the way that technology has created this attention deficit disorder globally,

You know, you talk about this and you see the White House rushing to say, look, it's, you know, it's only been six weeks.

You know, look how long World War II lasted.

Well, you know, World War II, if we'd all had smartphones, wouldn't have lasted past the first landings on the beaches of Normandy.

People would have been horrified and there would have been political pressure and we all would have stopped and gone home.

So.

And I think also you're absolutely correct when you say, and this comes from having spent the better part of 40 years overseas in some strange places.

People sometimes roll their eyes when I say this, but the U.S., regardless of what administration it is, it does tend to make decisions not for nefarious reasons.