Phil

He wants the port.

Yeah, I mean, look, this is, like I said earlier, this is still a military success for the United States.

Like the US, I think that when Iran is saying that they've achieved something because they managed to hit one F-35, like that's a big deal to them, considering all the sorties that have gone over.

You've got B-52s, which are not stealth,

aircraft.

They're flying over there basically at their whim.

They've got total air domination, if I understand correctly.

You can't say that Iran is winning the war.

The fact of the matter is the U.S.

doesn't have... There isn't a likelihood that the U.S.

is going to achieve its political goals.

And that's...

consistently what the U.S.

has been doing.

They'll achieve the military goals, but actually getting the political goals is something that has eluded the U.S.

for a long time.

Is it better than when we went in?

I mean, maybe marginally, but I don't know enough about what's going on inside Iraq now to say definitively.

But we can't even do regime change.

They had a resistance movement.