These terrorists to have nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat.

The most violent and thuggish regime on Earth would be free to carry out their campaigns

of terror, coercion, conquest, and mass murder from behind.

A nuclear shield. I will never let that happen, and neither should any of our past presidents.

This situation has been going on for 47 years and should have been handled long before I arrived in office.

This short-term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial

oil tankers and neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict.

This is yet more proof that Iran can never be trusted with nuclear weapons.

They will use them and they will use them quickly.

Iran has been essentially decimated.

The hard part is done, so it should be easy.

And in any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally.

It'll just open up naturally.

They're going to want to be able to sell oil because that's all they have to try and rebuild.

It will resume the flowing and the gas

prices will rapidly come back down. Stock prices will rapidly go back up. The president is looking

for an off ramp. Well, perhaps politically he is, but militarily, he talked much more about

escalation and effectively using words like the Stone Ages, sending them back to the Stone Ages, that sent the market tumbling in the wrong direction.

So there's no doubt that politically the White House is hoping for this to come to an end.

But that is not what the president signaled last night.

But I think the biggest

sort of takeaway is that there was so a little new in that speech. And had he given this

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