No. of Recommendations: 4
And in support of my first objective for the US:
(a) Severely degrade/Eliminate Iran's ability to project power and/or destabilize the region
...Marco Rubio confirms my diagnosis:
We would love to see this regime be replaced. And ultimately, as the president has said... (unintelligible call from the press) No, let me finish my answer. As the president said, he would love for the people of Iran to use this as an opportunity to rise up and remove these leaders. They've been wanting to remove them for a long time. We've seen successive waves of protests. And we've seen them slaughter people. But the objective of this mission is to make sure they don't have these weapons that can threaten us and our allies in the region.
That's why we're doing what we're doing now. And while we would love to see a new regime, the bottom line is, no matter who governs that country, a year from now, they're not going to have these ballistic missiles, and they're not going to have these drones to threaten us.
That's the objective of this mission. It's to deny them the ability to use ballistic missiles to threaten their neighbors, to threaten our bases, to threaten our presence in the region, and ultimately as a shield behind which they can do whatever they want with their nuclear weapons ambition. We were not going to let them hide behind that. And that's why this was such a critical mission to undertake now, while they were at their weakest point, and not a year from now, where they could inflict even more damage and perhaps already be behind that point of immunity.
