Well, it's been nearly one week since the U.S. and Israel launched those attacks on Iran. Meantime, the newest jobs numbers are adding to economic uncertainty. To discuss all this, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and K-Part. That is, at the Atlantic's David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS Now. It's great to see you both. So before we get into how Americans are viewing this war, which we need to talk about, I just want to kind of circle back. It's the first time we've spoken since the war was launched. And we've seen evolving justifications from the administration about why now and what they hope to have accomplished. So, David, let's just start there. What is your understanding of why this war was launched now and whether

or not it was justified? Well, you know, I hate the way the decision was made, which seems to have

been extremely haphazard. I have shared everybody's reservations and fears that there's no exit

strategy, that there's no plausible way to change the regime, let alone the deaths that are happening.

And so I share everybody's fears.

It's also true the 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the worst events of the 20th century.

And it began 47 years of terrorism, extremism, theocratic fascism.

It started with 1 to 2 million people dead in the Iran-Iraq war in 1980.

There were 241 Americans killed by Iranian supervision in Beirut.

And you go on. And Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, they've destabilized the Middle East.

They've killed people in Syria. A couple weeks ago, they killed somewhere

between 10 and 30,000 people in Iran who were protesting. And so this is a destructive and savage

regime that has destabilized the Middle East. It's also a regime that is in an unprecedentedly

vulnerable situation. It's lost the faith of its people.

Its economy is in tatters.

Its military is destroyed.

Its regime is decapitated.

So I'm ambivalent.

I hope the Iranian regime falls, and that could happen.

What bugs me, frankly, is the people who are sure,

the people who are sure this is a terrible thing,

and the people who are sure this is a good thing.

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