Stephen K. Bannon

These are kind of like the Houthis.

These are tough tribes.

kind of mountain people, the very tough, uh, you know, Henri, uh, and we try to take them out with, uh, with the, with the 2000 pound bombs.

Um, and, uh, you know, these guys are, uh, these guys are fighters, but why do you, why do you do the comparison to Gallipoli?

Well, that was a planned massive amphibious operation planned by the British against the Turkey at the Turks in world war one.

Uh, and it went terribly, um, 60,000 dead, 250,000 casualties, dozens of vessels lost.

Um, again, assaulting up, um, uh, difficult terrain.

Um, those islands, like I talked about in the, in the, in the Gulf are, are fairly flat, but they're immediately backed by steep terrain, which contains lots and lots and lots of fortifications.

Again, 15 point plan.

whatever I want, trust me, I want America to succeed.

I want this to be done.

Um, this is, I don't believe this was in our strategic interest in the first place.

So I would like to extricate the United States as quickly and as painlessly as possible, but trying, uh, smashing in, um,

with an amphibious operation in the front door is an exceedingly dangerous course of action.

Especially, right, if we think, again, the mantra in Washington is, oh, we've serviced all these targets and there's only a few left and it's great.

We did that already supposedly to the Houthis who had been shut, they shut down,

the Southern end of the red sea, another choke point waterway called the Babu Mandab, um, pouring billions of dollars worth of precision weapons, supposedly into those Hootie positions.

Now the Hooties compared to the IRGC are a rag tag, rag tag, bunch of guys.

And yet over that year and a half, two years, never affected their ability to choke off that waterway.

And so now if we think we're going to force our way in, yeah,