Senator Chris Murphy

and Israeli operations in Iran.

I do not actually think we share a goal set.

It's been very confusing to me as to whether regime change is an American goal.

Sometimes the administration says it is, sometimes they don't.

That is clearly a goal of

Israel.

They have been targeting political leadership inside Iran in a way the United States has not.

I don't think the United States wants Iran to be a failed state in the long run.

I do think that Israel wants Iran to be a failed state.

in the long run.

So there are divergent goals between the United States and Israel.

What is more concerning to me right now is the potential for a massive new conflict between Israel and Lebanon.

Obviously, you've seen this bombardment of Beirut and other cities inside Lebanon.

We might be days away from a new massive Israeli ground operation in Lebanon.

Lebanon is a very flawed country, but a multi-ethnic, multicultural democracy that was frankly, for the first time in a long time, on its way towards a better day because they had a functional government.

And so the idea that we would end up after the conflict with Iran with another alternative

long-term conflict between the United States and Lebanon, where tens of thousands of Lebanese will be killed, millions will be displaced, just a disaster for the region.

My sense is that the Trump administration has been trying to hold Netanyahu back, but they never

seem interested in doing that for more than a handful of days.

Right now, that's, I think, what we should be worrying most about is another massive U.S.-Lebanese war that might end up with the eradication of democracy in Lebanon.