Bishop.

Bill, your comment, and I'll read a few more headlines, and then we'll record.

Bill, you've been covering the various Middle Eastern wars for a quarter of a century.

I don't remember a situation like this, do you, Bill, where we jumped in with both feet and then said,

follow me, and nobody was there?

Yeah, I can't recall either.

And look, I efforts at coalition building have been largely symbolic and largely ineffective in the past.

So I understood the impulse to say, we're going to do it with who's willing to do it.

But to turn around after the fact and ask people to join the coalition, particularly when it's

very clear now that the Strait of Hormuz is not going to be open anytime soon, that the

Iranians are capable of shutting it down.

Now, look, last I checked, there hasn't been an

attack in the last four days on shipping, but you nailed it, John, in the open, when you said,

you know, just the threat of it. But they backed that threat up with attacking six ships

in the 24 hours. That was about five days ago, right? So they showed the capability to do it.

And so it's clear, like, if I'm Britain, why would I get involved in now?

All right. Let me finish the headlines, Bill, because Hussein wasn't here for saying,

I'm going through the London papers. We don't need to get to the American because they're five hours behind.

Trump warns NATO faces very bad future.

That's a quote in the F.T.

If allies fail to help U.S. in Iran, U.S. President tells the F.T. in an interview,

it was eight minutes long that China summit could be delayed.

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