Shawn Ryan

So the question was, is Iran an imminent threat?

And based on what Secretary Rubio said and what we've talked about here today, the only imminent threat was Israel attacking Iran.

Is Iran a threat to America?

Iran has been a threat to America.

And there's other countries that are threats to America as well.

The question is, how do you deal with those threats?

My issue is us being part of the Israelis' agenda, but then also using a massive conventional attack on Iran as the way of dealing with the threat that Iran poses, I think is wrong.

I think we'd be much better off doing targeted CT operations against Iranian proxies or Iranian leaders, not doing a massive regime change that results in the Straits of Hormuz being closed, and then also a rally around the flag that reinforces the hardliners inside of Iran.

If they do that, then the war is going to fail really quickly, because I just don't think the American people are willing to saddle up their sons and daughters for the draft.

Um, if they could get away with it, I think they'd be tempted to do it, because it'd be like an all options on the table, right?

Like, if they say, like, if we get so far sucked into this thing, kind of like we did in the Iraq war, where it's like, we can only win by applying a massive amount of ground troops, Iran is so big, we can't do it with the standing military that we have right now, as big as it is.

We would have to do a draft.

Now, I think a negative to the downside of the all-volunteer force we've had is that it's been very easy to deploy us.

And most Americans don't really know or care that we've been deployed because we volunteered for it.

We have professional soldiers.

I think a draft is actually a good check on that.

I think compulsory service.

I think if there was more people right now who they had to go do two years in the military and they were like, oh, crap, my two years are going to involve this Iran deployment.

I think, a lot more people in America.

And that was felt by the entire American population, that every able-bodied man and woman was eligible for a two-year period to go serve.