Jessica Tarlov

And I'm Jessica Tarlis.

Super interesting what you guys have said so far and so thankful that you could join us.

I know schedules are crazy.

I want to talk about what success looks like because Scott and I have been obviously talking about this over the course of the last month and trying to make room for the potential of what could go right.

And, you know, my politics are very clear.

I'm not a big fan of Donald Trump.

And this felt, you know, rushed and all the reporting around the pressure that Netanyahu was putting on Trump to do it on his schedule versus what might have been best for the United States that was clouding my vision of this.

So could you guys talk a little bit about what a mission accomplished this

not necessarily in the Bush sense, but really a feeling of success for us looks like.

And

Quiet those, I guess, who are saying, or maybe amplify if that's what you agree with, those that are saying there is no way that we can actually degrade their capabilities, that this won't crop up again, and this will have to be a recurring nightmare that we come back, or they will, to your point, Dan, have these ballistic missile capabilities again in a year or two, and then...

you know, we're back home and either have to go back or we leave our partners in the Gulf with a huge mess again.

Do you think that that can be an enduring solution?

Or is it a question of in a few years when you have a theocracy?

I mean, Delcy Rodriguez isn't an Ayatollah, right?

She's just a girl.

Yeah, she's only been in there for a couple months.

But is this doomed to repeat as so much of what goes on in the Middle East?

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