Phil Stewart
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Apr
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You know, that is a great question.
I'm glad you asked that.
We are trying to understand the risk appetite of this administration because you've seen now since the summer two major operations that are hard to imagine have happened really when you sit back.
One is the bombing of Iran's nuclear program.
People have talked about that for years and years and years.
And the risks...
of carrying out that operation and the blowback afterwards were, you know, enough to make a lot of people quite nervous.
And then an operation like this, as we discussed, you know, there are enormous risks.
I mean, let's say hypothetically only like, you know, one of the helicopters had gone down.
One of the helicopters was shot, was shot at and took fire.
And people aboard were injured, at least one person.
And, you know, had there been casualties, you know, would the media have seen it as a debacle?
Or hostages.
Or hostages, right?
Or have you had a Black Hawk down, you know, moment kind of like, you know, the U.S.
saw in Somalia?
What would that have been like?
And so I think we're trying to understand the risk appetite, what it was that got the president to decide that this was an operation worth pursuing.
But I would say the success of both those operations probably will lead the president to think this is a valid way of accomplishing foreign policy goals.
Today, you've seen the extraction of President Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, but Maduro's government is still very much intact.
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