Well, howdy there, internet people it spell again.

So today, we're going to talk about the Pentagon versus Trump.

Options, the foreseeable, and the future.

Reporting has come out that the Pentagon is preparing a new package of places that could be hit that is based

on the site being dual use. It supplies or is used by both civilians and the military. The package

is at odds with Trump's ill-advised public statements about hitting civilian infrastructure

in the country. The problem Trump has is that the U.S.

is pretty much out of critical or strategic military locations to go after. After more than a month

of strikes, there's legitimately not much left that is worth hitting militarily. That presents a problem. And I know it doesn't

sound like a problem, but it is, especially when you're running a high-tempo operation.

It would have been an easily foreseeable problem if Trump had a plan with identified measurable

objectives before going in, instead of trying

to keep his options open like it was a real estate deal. It's easy for me to stand here today

with the benefit of hindsight and say they should have seen it coming. But it was also easy to say on February 11th

when I was talking about Trump sending another carrier in,

and I said,

there comes a point when airstrikes really serve no purpose

beyond making the rubble bounce.

A lot of people thought that was some kind of dark humor.

But it's a genuine military problem

when you're not actually wanting to fight a ground war,

but are instead trying to use airstrikes to gain compliance.

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