I mean, there is no plan right now that I know of, and I'm, you know, I, listen, I hope I don't know everything, uh, to, to arm the opposition, to, to take back their country in Iran, is there?

Well, the Israelis have one, a- and we should support that.

We should unleash them.

We have to remember, at the early part of this war, Operation Epic Fury, it was the Iranians providing intel to the Israelis to use to, to target key leadership.

It was the first time it, within 10 days of the war, where the population had the ability to provide kinetic intel to the Israeli Defense Forces to target regime leadership.

We did that in 2007 in Iraq, uh, Brian, just for, just for context.

It took us two years...

Yeah

How much influence do the Qataris have on this deal?

Well, what's interesting is how much money Qatar has given both of those individuals, Witkoff and Kushner.

You know, it's all out there for the audience to see.

Just look at what Qatar did for Witkoff, $526 million to bail him out of a real estate deal.

And then they gave Jerry Kushner upwards of a billion dollars.

It's all out there.

And to have Qatar sit there and actually change the language, like, well, let's make it sound like this.

might be more part of this MAGA isolationist wing of the Trump camp that is now turning against Israel, too.

I

mean, just listening to you.

Navy speaks so directly about any ships trying to interfere with the blockade is huge, right? And then hearing the Treasury Secretary, not only we decimated Iran's military, and now we're decimating its economy, but look at all the narratives that have been shattered.

You know, the U.S. wasn't prepared for the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. can't enforce a blockade.

The U.S. is making a mistake with China.

I mean, China's pragmatic, right? China does not care where that oil comes from.

Are you hearing that that is starting to happen now?

How much intelligence, you were a Defense Intelligence Agency guy, how much intelligence are we still able to get out of Iran right now with everything going on?

I was also a 20-year military guy, a veteran of three wars, so I've fought Iran in Iraq, and I've fought Iran's support to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

But the intelligence here, what we've been able to do is hit static targets, right? Hit the launch sites for the ballistic missiles, hit their nuclear sites, hi- hit their drone, uh, factories.

What we're g- focused on now, along with the Israeli Defense Forces, and now our allies in the region, uh, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and others, is these launch sites for these drones.

Th- this is the most difficult target because you can pretty much launch one of these in 10 to 20 minutes.

If you wanna do a swarm operation, it'll take one to three hours.

So we have to look out for these launchers.

Similar situation in Iran, or no?

And you have to wonder, for Iran, a win can be something quite limited as doing damage to one of the ships or hitting an

ally.

The primary targets would be those radars for those systems you just talked about.

It'll be the ground-to-sea missile capabilities.

Those will be taken out.

And their defense systems will be targeted in that first wave.

And they'll be targeted with Iran being blind during that strike.

Your thoughts on what must be the thinking inside the Pentagon among career soldiers right now?