Shawn Ryan

They're basically our co-equal in this.

People like me will say, actually, we're not really even co-equals.

They're leading because we're having to react to them.

But either way, we're basically joined at the hip with the Israelis.

Now, the problem is they have a much different strategic goal and a much, I'd say, higher threshold and tolerance for chaos and bloodshed

than we do.

Now, we have stated that our strategic goal, you'll hear Secretary Hegseth rattle these off at his morning briefings that he gives to the media, it's to destroy the Iranian Navy, to destroy the IRGC, to destroy their ballistic missile capability, to destroy all their enrichment.

So we kind of have a checklist of things that we want to bomb, essentially, to take off the battlefield.

That's about as far as we've gone with stating what our strategic goal is, which I think is a big problem that we have with the GWAT, is we never really said what our strategic goal was.

Obviously there was get bin Laden and make sure the homeland isn't attacked.

But I just remember being in Iraq being like, what's the goal here?

Like we're building a government?

So same thing, we didn't really learn that lesson.

We haven't stated our strategic goal, the Israelis,

as critical as I am of our relationship with the Israelis, the Israelis have a very clear strategic goal, and that is to take out this regime lock, stock, and barrel.

That's to get rid of the Ayatollahs, the clerical class that rules over, and then also the IRGC, which is a huge lift.

It's a big country.

Those institutions are massive.

They've got a lot of support, but that's the Israelis' goal.

Now,