Steve Bannon

All this talk about what is the mission?

All of this is used to try and obstruct, undermine, dispirit and divide this nation.

At a time when Donald Trump is doing what great presidents do.

And the battle against Iran, maybe we should call it for now the Battle of Iran.

I call it a peace mission because that's the objective.

Peace.

Peace through strength.

taking on a government, an illegitimate terrorist regime whose roots are in the 7th century of barbarism, just like our founding fathers had to take on barbarism, just like Franklin Roosevelt needed to lead the nation against a barbaric Third Reich.

You see many similarities here.

The primary indispensable role of the United States is to anchor the global system against the revisionist ambitions of Beijing and Moscow.

China is not getting bogged down in Middle East and quagmires.

It is relentlessly investing in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, solar and wind power, batteries and robots, the technologies that will determine the balance of global power.

Russia remains fiercely committed to disrupting the European security architecture and undermining Western democracies through hybrid political-military warfare that has proved hard to detect and even harder to defeat.

But while Moscow and Beijing challenge the basic architecture of America's world order, Washington is preparing once again to spend blood and treasure policing the Middle East and trying to pick the leaders of one of its countries.

It's the place from which they get their energy.

But we also do it for some very good allies that we have in the Midwest.

Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump.

who's facing the same kind of ugly internal forces as Roosevelt did, who's facing the same kind of enemy that Jefferson did and Madison did.

Just remember this.

This is a righteous war that seeks peace.