Richard Haass

If you make efforts to negotiate peace, plus the ceasefire still has a couple of weeks to go unless we break it.

And there'll be more negotiations.

I don't think this is a one and done, one man's opinion.

But again, you know the president better than I do.

No way on God's green earth.

We are so much worse off.

Well, first of all, there was no reason to go to work.

Let's just point that out.

It wasn't as though Iran was about to do something.

in terms of some new action or unveiling a new threat.

There was nothing new on the nuclear file, nothing new on the Strait, nothing new with the proxy.

There was nothing new.

There was no reason to launch this war.

Second of all, as I said, Iran was economically reeling.

If there was a policy to be had,

particularly after the people were protesting and then hurt, mowed down by the Iranian authorities, it would have been to dial up the economic pressure.

That was the Achilles' heel.

This made no sense.

I mean, what have we accomplished?

We've reduced Iran's conventional military capabilities.