Stephen K. Bannon

We got to do something else.

But it was the economic destroying their currency is what drove those people into the streets of which 30,000 were then slaughtered.

But there's no doubt the economic warfare part that a naval blockade, Sam, do you agree, is is the instrument of economic warfare from time immemorial.

This is you put a quarantine on somebody.

This is the Brits perfected this, sir.

I mean, look.

We are now finally psychologically moving to the part of this where we fight smart and we use our leverage against their weakness instead of just being wedded to we're just going to bomb things.

And I don't mean to trivialize that.

We've caused massive damage.

But we have all kinds of other capabilities here.

I mean, this is a much more productive, smarter, more strategic way of approaching things.

than where we were a few weeks ago when people were feeling locked into, we got to start landing Marines on Iranian soil.

We have huge leverage.

We ought to take all of their money.

And frankly, if they're not going to get their heads around dealing with us, then we keep all of their money.

As far as I'm concerned, if there's Iranian oil in a ship and we've given everybody notice that,

You can't go in there.

We take the Iranian oil and sell the Iranian oil and keep that money too.

Let them starve as a regime.

This is a smart way to approach this, but it's got to be bigger and longer.