Tom Nichols

He hasn't made it to the people of the United States.

I doubt he's made it to his own generals because he's so mercurial and changes his mind.

I think it's really revealing that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, it leaked out that he had concerns, that he was trying to caution the president about this whole business.

But without knowing where you're going, any road gets you there.

Well, one of the ways that the military, the senior military communicates to the senior civilian leadership is to talk about constraints.

One definition of strategy is choice within constraints.

Because if you think about it, if you have no constraints, you don't need a strategy, right?

If you're Superman, you can do anything you want, and you don't really have to think about how you're going to do it.

You just kind of use your superpowers and make it happen.

But the issue of munition stocks will come into play depending on how long a war the president is considering.

And once again—

We don't have any clarity on that.

Is this going to be two nights, three nights?

Then we're not going to have—then Cain's concerns are not going to come into play in a very short-term, one-and-done kind of strike.

But if we're going in there for a month, two months, three months, and we're just going to pound a country of more than 90 million people, you know, that's going to be a problem.

I just want to say one other thing, Hannah.

He brought up some other stuff, including things like alliances.

So it wasn't just about munitions.

I mean, he was kind of issuing a general concern that we are not in the best strategic condition right now.

Absolutely not.