Sam Faddis

What are we going to exact?

What are we talking about when we sit down in Islamabad?

Because we are miles and miles apart here.

No, at this point, if I had to predict, I would predict that we're going to be back in a shooting war.

sooner rather than later.

I hope that's not true, but we're miles apart.

I mean, look, we think or want to think they're coming to the table because they believe they are losing the war.

They are coming to the table because they believe they are winning the war and we are losing, which is why they're dictating terms to us, which amount to surrender.

So that's where we are.

You don't have to agree with their assessment.

You don't have to adopt their position.

I'm just saying they don't at this point believe that we are forcing them to the table.

They believe they have forced us to the table.

That's where we are.

No, you're absolutely right.

It's foundational, right?

It's like, okay, we're not having this conversation.

I mean, look, President Jefferson, when we barely had a Navy –

and a Marine Corps establish this principle with the Barbary pirates, right?

I don't care what the Brits are doing and the French, they pay you off and ransom their citizens.