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00:00So, you know, Joe, this has been a reminder to me of why presidents for 47 years have been so
00:06careful
00:07about starting a conflict with Iran. Iran is a big, powerful country, and it's wily, it's smart.
00:17It doesn't give you easy options to get out. And President Trump is now confronting the reality
00:24that we always talk about the danger when you're thinking about military conflict of unanticipated
00:31consequences. It's obvious that the administration, the president himself, simply didn't anticipate
00:37the way that Iran could use the Strait of Hormuz as leverage. I'm sure they were, he was briefed
00:44on it, but he seems to have blown through those briefings in the conviction that Iran would
00:49be like Venezuela. How many times have you and I, Joe, talked about this idea he had coming
00:55out of that amazing mission that everything would be like Venezuela, blow into town, they'd
01:00capitulate, it'd be over. He obviously had a feeling like that about Iran. And now he's
01:06stuck, and nobody really is rushing to help him, which is part of his problem. The Europeans
01:13are going to have to think that their interests require them to be more active. But again,
01:20this is a lesson in why being careful with the use of military force is so important.
01:27And I'll bet it's one that even Donald Trump today is learning. He does not want to go back
01:33into a big war. You can just see that, even with this announcement about sort of quasi-escorting
01:40ships, he does not want to be in a shooting war again.