Tim Miller

And this is what the Republicans would be saying, like that he couldn't even back up his own bluster, said it was going to be unconditional surrender, ended up begging the Iranians to let him get out of the quagmire.

The whole thing is just totally humiliating.

And if you go back to the pre-war, it is too kind to them to say we've gotten to the pre-war status quo because.

And A, the Strait of Hormuz will not be at the pre-war status quo and Iran will have more control over it and some kind of economic benefit from it that they didn't have before.

But even setting the Strait aside, one of the rationales that you heard from the misguided but reasonable supporters of the war at the beginning was that this could be the moment to topple the regime because they were so weak.

There were protests in the streets.

The Iranian economy was in tatters.

The Ayatollah was 100 years old.

And, you know, there was some type of regime change coming soon anyway because he was going to die.

You know, their proxies had been weakened by a lot of actions that Israel had been taken.

The regime was in rough shape.

before we bombed them and before we decapitated them.

And now you come out of this on the back end and you have a more hardline regime that has more control over the country and they're going to have more money, right?

Because they're going to have a huge influx of cash.

Like, what is that money going to go to?

Do you think the money is going to go to the Iranian people?

Or do you think it's going to go to get more missiles and replenish the drones and support their terrorist proxies, other places?

That's what I think the money is going to go to.

And just last week, also just on the way, it's worth mentioning, you said that Hegseth was bragging about all of the bombing that we did, that they not only survived, but came out the other side in a stronger negotiating position.

It was just Trump.