Senator Chris Murphy

war aims.

I would advise him to stop the war, and I think that is the fastest way ultimately to get Iran

to reopen the Strait.

Yeah, I mean, that's the disaster that Trump has wrought here.

I mean, let's just go through his war aims.

He said he wants to destroy their missile program.

There's no evidence we've come anywhere close to that.

Destroy their drone program.

There's no evidence we will ever be able to destroy their drone program.

He wants to get rid of their nuclear weapons.

weapons, ambitions.

They retain all of that enriched capacity and you can't really destroy knowledge.

And now you've made them a true global player by giving them control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Again,

The alternative is to just continue bombing Iran and hope that eventually the destruction that we wrought, the number of civilians that we kill will cause the Iranians to reopen the strait.

I don't think that that's a likely path forward.

And so let's end the conflict and then with our regional allies be in a conversation with Iran about reopening.

short and medium term.

I just don't know right now that there's any way around it.

So do you want that to be the reality in addition to spending $200 billion of taxpayer money on a war that likely won't end up with the Strait being opened?