I just remained dumbfounded, how many senior American officials, like here the former vice president, are completely clueless, and I mean, utterly without knowledge or understanding, about military fundamentals and how wars are won and how they are lost.
They still think it’s just a matter of their personal preference, as in how they want the war to turn out, not a matter of military capacity on our side, logistics, defensive capacity on Iran’s side, and the nature of the target.
It’s like all of these people have literally no clue, and yet this man was a heartbeat away from being president of the United States.
The plain and now painfully self-evident reality is, we cannot merely bomb a country into submission, especially one that is as big as most of Western Europe, and had prepared 20 years in advance with underground facilities that are impervious to even nuclear weapons.
And yet he still acts as though it’s a choice that could be made, irrespective of military realities, that we can just choose to bomb them and win, and that now then that reality is imposing itself over the spin, he seems flummoxed as to why we “have to“ make concessions to get the war over with.
Anyone who was actually paying attention knew all of these things were ordained, before the first bomb was dropped.
Collins: It sounds like you think this is a mistake.
Pence: It’s much bigger than a mistake.