Shawn Ryan

The default answer can't always be, well, we're going to do another regime change war and get sucked into this place for 20 plus years.

We shouldn't.

And then also just in terms of being effective, if our goal is to stop the Iranians from doing things like that, I argued, I've argued this for quite a while, we would only strengthen the hardliners in Iran.

We would only strengthen the Quds Force, the IRGC, and the hardline Ayatollahs if we go in there and try and take them out.

It's the basic rally around the flag effect.

And I think we've done that.

I mean, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that we killed

Not a great guy, probably a bad guy, but by killing him, we basically said, the next guy who's in charge, he's going to say, we're not gonna have a prohibition on developing nuclear weapons.

And if we end up killing him too, and we end up killing some of the other folks that are more moderate, they're not gonna be replaced by like a mini Thomas Jefferson.

They're gonna be replaced by more and more hardliners.

There's always been a tension in Iran between the clerics and between the IRGC.

And the IRGC, it's full of pipetters, man.

I mean, it's the guys who fought the Iraq War.

They fought us in Iraq.

They fought against the Israelis in Lebanon with Hezbollah.

So if we give these guys the ability to basically say, hey, don't listen to the moderates.

Our job is to fight the Americans.

It's to fight the Israelis.

Then this is going to get harder and harder.

There's going to be more terrorism.