Sohrab Ahmari

It's China.

It has to do with the fact that in a few years, more than half of global GDP will be in the Asia-Pacific region.

And forget the region that I left behind.

It's the mess of a region that I left behind.

Why go back in, especially on these premises of we're going to give Iranians freedom?

How are they, as you said...

As Marjorie, as others have said, how are we going to achieve that?

What's the metric?

How is that going to be possible without boots on the ground?

And then today I hear both the president and Secretary Hegseth, whom I admire on other fronts, I got to say.

I mean, you know, I've interviewed Pete and and respect him.

I actually think people underestimate him.

But, you know, talking about if necessary, we'll have boots on the ground.

I mean, this is it's like taking a an unpleasant.

time capsule back to 2003.

Even the same language.

I mean, I heard someone on Fox News, one of these Republican lawmakers, highly intelligent Republican lawmakers said, you know, it'll be up to the Iraqi people, excuse me, the Iranian people to determine their destiny.

It's like, oh, my God.

So

Yes, I think this – it surprised even me, and I was – obviously, to be clear, I was a war skeptic.