I'm John Batchel with my good friend Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracy.

The Straits of her moves. Where is the ceasefire story? Well, I can't find it, Bill. I read a headline from the F.T.

This morning out of London. U.S. in Iran launched fresh strikes as peace efforts continue.

Subhead, Washington and Tehran are still trying to formalize a ceasefire.

Therefore, the ceasefire we were told had descended is not a ceasefire bill. In fact, the ceasefire

has never been a cease of fire. They characterized it as defensive reaction or skirmish.

Right now, there is nothing peaceful about the St-of-war moves, and the ceasefire

seem farther away than ever.

What is your observation, Bill?

We have a couple of minutes.

Yeah, just like Lebanon, if this is what a ceasefire looks like, I hate to see what a war

looks like.

Clearly, you know, I think this term ceasefire is thrown around far, far too often.

The U.S., Iran, Lebanon, Israel, they enter into these ceasefires when they're nowhere

ready to end taking shots at each other.

And it's confusing.

It's confusing to the American public.

It's, again, I just think the messaging behind this war from the administration, from the U.S. military has been absolutely awful.

You know, you could say we are working with Iran to achieve a ceasefire. That might be a lot more understandable. But people rightfully get

confused when elected officials, when military officials are saying, we are in a ceasefire

with Iran. Oh, and we're blowing up their ships and targeting missile sikes. And meanwhile,

Iran is launching attacks at our bases through the region. That isn't what a ceasefire looks like.

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