Notable Quotable: Claire McCaskill On War On Iran

It's easy to fantasize about winning a war, especially when the war room spins news in that direction. But those in the know see a very different outcome. A former general spoke of U. S. navy ships being incinerated if they enter the Strait of Hormuz.

Today, former U.S. Senator, Claire McCaskill, spoke candidly about the reality no one in this administration is willing to talk about out loud.

"We have a situation where the people who know best what a terrible collision course our country is on right now are by and large silenced.

"I have to think there's a cold wind blowing through the Pentagon right now, because if you look at what they say—they're actually saying the objective now is to open the Strait of Hormuz. In other words, our objective in this war is to fix the problem this war caused.

"The notion that everyone is thinking, and I think it's important to point out, the idea is that Iran has a more hardened leadership now than before we started the war. This isn't a regime change. This is a hardening of their extreme views. Their views are that this is for Allah, and not for the people of Iran. This is worse, not better, this regime.

"The idea that they're sitting around, twiddling their thumbs, waiting for us to come in—not with boots on the ground, these are human beings on the ground, men and women, sons and daughters of America."

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