Stephen K. Bannon

They're Aryans.

They are highly intelligent, highly skilled warfighters, and it would not be the pushover by comparison that you see of the –

of the Iraqi army that worked.

The other thing the Iranians have done, seeing what the US military did to Iraq in 2003 and 2004, where they decapitated all the military command structure, is they decentralized the decision-making into 31 military districts with a standing order to make war, as much war, for as long as you can.

And the only person that can countermand that is the Supreme Leader.

not their minister of defense or their chief of the armed forces or their president, only the Supreme leader.

So it's, um, uh, at that point, even hard to, uh, to negotiate with any of the other people that come to, uh, to meet JD Vance or whatever.

Um, and I think we just killed the, uh, the head of the parliament, who was the other guy that was supposed to come and negotiate with, with JD Vance.

So, um, uh,

I'm not sure that U.S.

interests are even in parallel at all to Israeli interests because they seem to be whacking a lot more of the leaders, taking those names off the board, people that are supposed to be negotiating peace with.

Look, clearly President Trump, I keep saying, and Rubio picked it up, optionality.

He needs optionality, he needs a range of alternatives, and you're never going to give your strategy.

That being said...

The National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio, and the Vice President were pretty adamant to go back to the military objectives.

President Trump doesn't even refer to it as a war anymore.

It's a military operation.

You've got those four or five objectives of, you know, deindustrialize them, taking out the Navy, taking out the Air Force, their defense capabilities, air capabilities.

We have air supremacy now, or at least air superiority.

You know, and Marco was adamant, or pretty adamant, and repeated many times, we're not going to need combat troops for this.