Tom Nichols

You'll get a patchwork of authorities across the country.

And that leaves open a lot of mischief.

As we're...

Yes, we're all about to learn some things.

We're all about to go through some things.

So I think, you know, part of the problem is the Steelman case rests on, yeah, these are all valid objections, but we're in it now.

Well, that's a hell of a way to do foreign policy.

I mean, the car's off the cliff, you know, and turning to the guy in the next seat and saying, we're fine, you drive.

Okay, well, we are, okay, but... But we are in it.

We are in it.

Well, yeah, and I suspect that Netanyahu has learned how, as most world leaders have, they've learned how to manipulate Donald Trump.

And I'm sure there's been whispering in Donald Trump's ear about you're going to be the liberator of Iran.

There will be songs written to you for centuries.

There will be statues in Tehran.

Look, Bill Clinton's got a statue in Bosnia.

You need one.

And I'm sure he's hearing all that stuff.

and responding to it the way we know Donald Trump responds to visions of glory and flattery.

But here's where I want to be a war college professor for a minute.

One of the things we always warn our students is,