David Brooks On Iran War Outcome

David, is the U.S. better off today than it was before the war? DAVID BROOKS, THE ATLANTIC: No, it's significantly worse off. I'm glad the war's over. I mean, it's good for all of our economy and people stopped dying. But, listen, in 60 days, Iran may have control of the Straits of Hormuz. In 60 days, they may be able to restart their nuclear program. I'm highly dubious they're going to give that up. And so -- and, plus, they have shown they can stand up to the world's greatest military, survive it, and sort of outsmart it. And I'm really struck by -- Napoleon has this famous phrase that, when it comes to war, the moral is to the material as 3-1. Meaning the moral is three times more important than the material. And how did the United States, with our military, our economy, our alleged power, lose a war to Iran with their military and their alleged power? And it's because they wanted it more. And they had leadership that was willing to do whatever it took to win the war. And we didn't. We had a president who I don't want to say chicken out, but he wasn't tough enough to fight this war. And you shouldn't start a war you're not tough enough to fight, especially when their response, closing the strait, is the most obvious thing that we were -- allegedly was seemingly unprepared for. And so it's a debacle for America. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/david-brooks-iranian-leadership-was-willing-to-do-whatever-it-took-to-win-the-war-and-we-didn-t/ar-AA269YhE?ocid=BingNewsVerp