Ted Cruz

That's a very specific commitment.

The time frame is exact.

And you're right.

There is a long pattern of those who test President Trump's time frame ending up on the losing end of things.

This military conflict to date, and in the three weeks that we've been engaged in it, the U.S.

military has been focused on military targets.

It's been focused on air defense systems.

It's been focused on short and medium-term ballistic missiles.

It's been focused on launchers for missiles.

It's been focused on factories and production facilities for missiles.

Same thing for drones.

It's been focused also on Navy ships.

It's been focused on top personnel, and many of the top personnel have been taken out.

Look, in military conflict, it is a significant thing if you destroy the economic infrastructure of a country because when this military conflict ends, presumably Iran is going to be able to need to function as a country.

And if its ability to provide power, if its ability to – its main source of revenue is selling oil, if we take out the ability to generate oil production –

That would have a devastating impact on the economy of Iran, much more so than it has already happened, if all of that infrastructure is taken out.

And once it's taken out, it can take years and years and years to rebuild.

And one of the challenges, look, with ordinary leaders, cost-benefit analysis can work.

Here you've got radical Islamist clerics saying,

who frankly don't give a damn if the people suffer.