Tim Miller

Yeah.

Yeah, right.

Exactly.

And he feels like maybe I can will into existence something that is heroic about this or something to be proud of about this if I focus on how many people were bombing and the courage of our people.

And maybe then people won't be able to undermine me and point out that –

This is the stupidest war that we've gotten into in a long time, and that's a competitive category because we've been in quite a few dumb ones.

Yeah.

Well, then he gets outmatched to the briefing room.

Then he gets outmatched to the briefing room.

Because he's like, you know, there's no... Because why does he do the briefings anymore, really?

Right.

You know, because the questions are about all the ways in which they failed.

My view on it is, I think that it's already far worse than people have really accepted internally.

And that the, like, medium-term damage is hard to predict, but it's going to be...

Across economic, geopolitical, militarily, this is just an unimaginable quagmire that is going to be impossible for them to disentangle themselves from.

And even if Trump runs for the exits, as we are talking right now, the ramifications are going to echo for the rest of his presidency.

That's where I'm at on it.

This is not a popular thing to do because you don't want to be –

You don't want to be the never Trump pundit that's like, this is the end.

The walls have closed in.