Mike Baker

rightly so.

There's fatigue, right?

I mean, we saw it with Afghanistan.

We saw it with Iraq.

This is a much shorter period of time.

And the Pentagon's been pointing out, look, it's only been two months or three months.

I mean, give us a chance.

But people develop this ADHD much quicker than they used to.

And you get a sense in the general population in the U.S.

anyway, people are just tired of it.

And so it's a fascinating situation, but

Yeah, well, look, I think your experience, your insight is spot on.

And you've mentioned that because the critics...

And it's not so much critic.

I don't have a dog in the hunt from a political perspective.

So I look at this and I'm just looking at it from an operational perspective and from a track record of the Iranian regime over all these years.

But when you say anything about this current memorandum of understanding or the way this thing seems to be developing, people in the White House or elsewhere will say, oh, you're just criticizing the administration.

I'm not criticizing the administration.

I'm just pointing out

the realities of where this goes and then they'll always say well what's your solution but i think i think you're right i'm on the same page as you the solution was to keep the foot on the gas as far as the economic fury or whatever we want to call it and now you know obviously there's a downside