Richard Miniter

I think you take your point of good cop, bad cop.

Here's what Donald Trump knows.

You have to look at what happened in Donald Trump's formative years.

What were the events occurring when Donald Trump was in the early prime of his life?

Hezbollah in the 1980s killed more Americans than any other terrorist group in history, with the exception of Al Qaeda itself.

So there is no, there is a tendency in the Biden and Obama years to view Hezbollah the kind of way management deals with a union, right?

Like, we have to deal with them, but they're part of the landscape and they have a right to be here, kind of.

We have to make the best deal we can.

It's not how Donald Trump sees it.

I guarantee you that if you were asked him what happened on the Akili Loro in 1985, he could tell you, right?

I guarantee you he could tell you about the various terrorist strikes and US Navy personnel who was murdered on a hijacked airplane, loudly saying the Al Father in English, by the way, as he was killed by his captors in front of a plane load of people, right?

This makes a deep impression on two important people, Donald Trump and Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, who this was a living adult memory for them.

They lived through this.

So the idea that they've decided that they're going to just separate the way the State Department would like to do Hezbollah from Iran and say, oh, we're going to have to live with Hezbollah.

That's not the case.

I mean, this is as plausible.

And if you look at the White House's reaction to the seizure of the Crusader Castle just north of the Latani River in Lebanon, you know what the reaction was?

Nothing.

No protest.

No, oh, you've colored outside the lines.