00:00I mean, there are some pundits out there and some military analysts we've spoken to who've
00:04suggested that they detect a bit of shifting of the goalposts. They seem to be saying that the
00:09goals have evolved somewhat since the first days of the war. Is that something you've detected?
00:15Well, you know, I think one of the challenges that we have had with this is articulating what
00:21the end states, the political, the policy end states are that we're looking for. And from my
00:28perspective, after hearing a number of things, I think it's clear that the United States or
00:34our administration wants kind of a defanged regime in place, one that is capable of doing what it
00:40needs to do within Iran, but not being a threat to the neighbor. No ability for them to, you know,
00:47use military power beyond their borders and certainly no nuclear weapons. And so I think
00:52those, if you look at those as kind of being the things that I surmise as being the objectives,
00:57then that's, that's kind of where we're focused on. Certainly the president has a very unique
01:03way of communicating. So there's a lot, there's a lot out there in the information space right
01:08now. So I still think we are largely focused around those three things.
Comments