Steve Bannon

They're going to throw roses in the streets as the American troops walk into Baghdad and free them.

And they're going to put their thumbs in and get blue ink like in Afghanistan.

And they're all going to be Jeffersonian Democrats.

And the world's going to live happily ever after because it's only democracy that these nations need.

That's all they need.

You saw the folly that that was.

So now why not total war?

When I say total war, total economic and financial war against the Persians and anybody in business with them.

If we're going to have a possibility of young American men and women as combat troops inserted into the Middle East, inserted into the Persian Gulf and maybe even in mainland Persia, right?

They're going to go back and do the Alexander the Great thing.

I might add that Alexander the Great, after that trip back through Persia, where he put two-thirds of his army on boats and took them through the Strait of Hormuz and past Karg Island up to the Tigris and Euphrates to Babylon.

I think Alexander the Great, as great as he was, was dead six months later when he got to Babylon.

Either through a fever he caught,

Or maybe some poison they gave him because they thought, hey, maybe he's going to send us back across that hellhole.

Remember, Alexander the Great had a revolt of his generals, the greatest group of better than Lee's lieutenants.

Better than some of the fighting generals we had in World War II.

Better than Black Jack Pershing had on the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. His generals, and they're the ones that said, yo...

Brother, we've gone too far.

This land is horrible.

These people are horrible.