Tim Miller

So it's possible.

I don't think that's what's happening now, but it bears mentioning.

I think the one element of what happened yesterday

that makes it slightly different from what we've seen for the past three months is if there are continued hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah and Israel and Iran, and if Trump can't contain that or can't credibly say that he...

wants to contain that in a negotiation.

I do think that further complicates, you know, his ideal to get a final deal.

I mean, Iran's, it's hard to even say what each side's terms are to end the war because the ball is moving on both sides a lot.

You can't really trust anything coming out of, you know, either party.

But if you take, you know, Iran's stated metrics for ending the war, you know, one of them is tell Israel to stop attacking Lebanon.

They want reparations for the finances lost.

You know, they want, you know, some some element of control over the straightforward moves and they want Israel to stop attacking Lebanon.

And if Trump can't promise that as part of the deal, then that complicates the deal somewhat.

And I do think that that's.

kind of the one development from yesterday that's newish and relevant.

I guess the last thing, I've said this several times, but I kind of don't ever want this topic to go by anymore without mentioning just how humiliating and weak it is, just because it is truly unimaginable that Barack Obama would do something like this, start a war, demand unconditional surrender, and then start tweeting, please, baby, don't bomb.

I mean, honestly, the people at Fox News could not contain themselves.

Talking about how much he's a bicycle-riding, arugula-eating, weak leftist.

Trump has demonstrated more

weakness and less resolve than any president that we've had in modern times in this war.

And I just think that continues to bear mentioning.