Shawn Ryan

The Israelis don't really care necessarily if that happens and Iran then slips into chaos and the Straits of Hormuz remains inflamed and there's a migration crisis and there's an ongoing war.

The Israelis don't care about that.

They care that the IRGC and the Ayatollahs can no longer fund their proxies or cause them problems inside of Israel.

So again, you've got us footing the bill, doing the majority of the combat,

doing the dying, doing the fighting, we have a very, very murky strategic objective, whereas the Israelis are driving this.

They're driving, essentially, our commitment of combat power.

They're driving us having people lose their lives.

They have a very clear strategic objective.

And this is why I say the number one thing we have to do in order to get out of this is to restrain the Israelis and get our relationship with Israel straight.

Otherwise, it's all going to be for naught and we're going to continue to get sucked in further and further.

I feel like it's truly not, and the Israelis don't have a hard time articulating what their goal is.

Yeah, so we just list off the tactical punch list of things we want to bomb to take out so the Iranians don't have any more.

And to me, that's not a real strategic goal.

It sounds like- Is that Trump?

It sounds like Lindsey Graham.

I mean, Lindsey Graham was on the Sunday shows yesterday talking about how great it would be.

It would be just like Iwo Jima.

I mean, just insanity.

And I mean-

I don't think the people who are pragmatic and are expressing their concerns, I don't believe they're being listened to.