Shawn Ryan
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Now, obviously, the administration will push back and say, no, no, we're doing robust planning and we're hearing all voices, et cetera.
But when I see ideas like that floated, and there's much worse ones out there as well, basically, most of the formulas for putting boots on the ground inside of Iran are...
A problematic, I guess it's too late of a way to put it.
They're bad plans.
100%.
I mean, that would be handing Iran, basically, a strategic victory.
Because once they get our troops on the ground there,
They're going to be able to kill some of them.
We're going to take losses.
And then we fall back into that cycle.
Once we take losses somewhere, we say, oh, no, no, now we can't leave.
We have to stay to avenge our fallen.
It can't be all for nothing.
We have to stay.
We have to keep fighting.
We saw this over and over again in the GWAT.
Every single time we talked about any kind of withdrawal in Iraq or Afghanistan, it was the same argument.
We've lost too much here.
There's still more that we could do.
So, I mean, in terms of the Kragh Island, that makes me nervous because I have heard so many people like Lindsey Graham talk