Nora Jones

was even a signatory of it, even though

We were like the guarantor of the international law of the sea.

It was based on the post-World War II Blue Water Navy ethos of we control commerce on the high seas anywhere and everywhere.

This goes back to like the Barbary pirates that Thomas Jefferson dispatched the U.S.

Marines to say, no, we will not allow a pirate veto.

It's like, well, now we just did.

Now what do we do?

Like what do you do in this scenario?

And because –

We didn't envision a place where the American public, I mean, if you were to poll and ask, ultimately, did America have the capability of actually taking over the Straits of Hormuz?

Yeah, we do.

It would take hundreds of thousands of troops, lives, endless amounts of money.

It would take a literal, almost a Pearl Harbor type event for somebody to really be able to support that.

But we don't.

And so in the interim, you are actually left with trying to accomplish it from the air with these billions of dollars in weapons.

The price that I have now seen was that the war cost hundreds of millions a day.

The total cost was between $33 and $53 billion just for the six or seven weeks of the war.

The backlog in weapons will take probably five to ten years to completely replace even with the $1.5 trillion defense budget.

It is a strategic disaster.

and for this to be now the result.