Stephen K. Bannon

Is the combat troops we have and another 10,000 being prepped?

Is that so President Trump has another option?

Is it for leverage against these guys?

Or how real do you feel right now moving in to make sure they take those couple of islands down by Strait of Hormuz and then Karag Island?

And you're thinking this through and putting in that logistics base

or that logistics premise or predicate, how real do you think we're moving on with the cheerleading of Mark Levin and Thiessen and all these other, you know, the Lindsey Grahams of the world?

How realistic do you think it looks like combat troops?

Well, unlike the chattering classes in Washington, Steve, I've actually sailed through the Straits of Hormuz on a sailboat, oddly enough, with a huge Blackwater logo on the sail doing a race, the Dubai to Muscat race.

Um, it's narrow and those two islands on the north side, one is Kesham and one is Larrick.

Kesham is the size of Okinawa.

Larrick is the size of Iwo Jima.

Anybody that knows anything of American maritime amphibious history knows those names and how many thousands and thousands of soldiers were killed.

by a very dug in enemy.

Now, those islands are generally flat.

So even if you put guys over the beach and you take them, the bunkers, prepared fortifications, which I would imagine are there.

Worse than that, on the mainland Iran, there are

mountains very, very close by, which are also laced with caves, tunnels and survivability from which can be launched rockets, missiles and drones, making both of those islands that you're trying to put potentially putting Marines ashore as one large beaten zone.

And I think it's important to think of other military history of a grand amphibious operation planned by the British in World War Two at Gallipoli.

which is to try to take the Dardanelles and take out Turkey from the war.

And it ended very badly because they never seized the highlands.