Senator Chris Murphy

That's just not true.

It is likely that we've gotten far less than half.

And we knew from the beginning that a major military operation was going to cause them to close the Strait.

And that is the primary reason why both Democratic and Republican presidents prior to Donald Trump had not undertaken a military action of this size.

We knew that it would draw them closer together.

to China, ending up in China benefiting.

And regime change is not something you can achieve without a ground invasion, as we have now seen definitively.

The Ayatollah was a bad guy, but he was a doddering old man.

It is now possible that we have put in charge of that nation much more competent and

much more provocative leadership.

So, no, I don't think that for me there was any argument that they could make that a military campaign was going to end up achieving any of our goals.

Yeah, I want their missile program gone.

I want their drone program gone.

I want Iran to be a democracy, but I don't see any of those being achieved by a short-term targeted military intervention.

But who takes us seriously when we respond to a catastrophic mistake with another catastrophic mistake?

I mean, you know, this is like trotting out a little league team, you know, in a major sporting event and hoping that if you just keep playing, they'll win.

I mean, these guys are embarrassing the United States.

This latest move of closing the strait ourself in order to respond to Iran closing the strait, that makes us look like a laughingstock.

This is just going to get worse and worse because these people do not know what they're doing.

And