Stephen K. Bannon

Dr. Thayer, kind of one of our resident strategists.

I want you to go back.

You mentioned something on this show a couple weeks ago about Napoleon.

Talk to me about when Napoleon had problems.

that looked like they were like Gordy and Nacho, couldn't do it.

He would say, I want you to scale this.

He would tell his marshals.

First off, he says, it's your thing that you've got to figure it out.

It ain't my job to figure it out.

It's your job to figure it out.

He would tell them, scale up your problem.

Talk to me about that and specifically apply it to the current situation in the Persian Gulf, in the Strait of Hormuz, in the entire war with Iran right now, sir.

First off, the history of the Persians.

The Persians have been negotiating for, I don't know, 3,000 years.

They fought the Greeks, they fought the Romans, and now they've got the Americans, also the British.

I guess the British were subterfuge.

And the Americans.

So they've taken on the best of the West.

Right.

These guys also have a bureaucracy that goes back long before the Mulas.