Noel King

What do you make of what he said there?

The problem, I think one might say, is that limited occupation seems to be something that the U.S.

has planned for in the past, and then it wasn't so limited, yeah?

Yeah.

Tell me what we're seeing specifically.

What makes you think that?

One of the big questions with this war, time and again, has been why, why, why?

Why are we doing what we're doing?

What is the strategic principle behind what we're doing?

So Senator Lindsey Graham, who's been acting as sort of a proxy for the White House, has gone on TV and said... Here's what I tell President Trump.

And that is the argument for...

for deploying troops or for attacking Karg Island.

We did Iwo Jima.

We can do this.

I think Americans really want to know whether we are going to see troops en masse deployed into the region, whether, you know, boots on the ground, so to speak, will come to pass.

You've been reporting on this for a long time.

What set of circumstances do you think would need to be in place in order for us to deploy into Iran or into this region in a big way?

Like, what could happen here?

Phil Stewart, he's Reuters' chief national security correspondent.

Peter Balanon-Rosen produced today's show and Jolie Myers edited.