00:00And President Trump has suggested that the Iranian government will eventually fall.
00:05But he did say in an interview with Fox today that won't be immediately.
00:10Based on the current situation, how realistic do you think that assessment is from President Trump?
00:18Well, I mean, President Trump has been all over the place in terms of his objectives for this war.
00:24I mean, I have a running list that I posted to social media.
00:27It's well over 10 different objectives that he has talked about.
00:32And so, you know, I think I think with every passing day comes another claim about why we're there and
00:40what we're trying to do.
00:41But when it comes to regime change, I mean, that is one of the things Trump said at the outset.
00:46And I think he got quiet on it in the first, you know, 10, 10, 11, 12 days of the
00:51war.
00:52And then today now we have the statement about regime change and how it's going to take a little bit
00:56longer than than we expected.
00:59OK, so that is Trump's way of tacitly admitting that we made a mistake, that we overestimated our own capabilities.
01:06It also goes to show that simply using air power to bomb Iran into submission is not something that's going
01:14to work.
01:14We are going to need to send ground troops if we want to try to actually implement regime change, as
01:21we did in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.
01:24Of course, you know, I'm not advocating that approach or anything like that, but I'm saying if we were to
01:29do that, the the the way to do it that gives us the highest probability of success is through ground
01:36troops.
01:36And I just saw before jumping on the air with you that we are deploying now a marine expeditionary unit
01:43to Iran, OK, or to the Middle East, rather, which signals not only that the mission is not going to
01:50plan, but that there may be the possibility of ground troops or limited ground presence in around in Iran or
01:58in and around that region.
01:59Right. So this is this is worrisome stuff. And it's a slippery slope in its mission creep, as we've seen
02:05in the past with Iraq and Afghanistan.
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