It's Thursday, March 5th, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Events continue to unfold in the Middle East, the United States and Israel continue the military effort, not only to destabilize the Iranian regime, but to topple it.

Furthermore, when you look at what's happening on the ground from the air, and remember this is an

air campaign, it's the Israeli Air Force and the United States Armed Forces, but it's by air,

all of it. The president does not intend to put troops on the ground,

but the effort is taken to undermine the Iranian regime. And of course, this led to the death of the

Supreme Leader, the second Supreme Leader. That would be Ayatollahominee, but now it is being

argued that it may be the son of the second supreme leader after the

Iranian revolution, the son of Ayatollahomene, who may be elected to be his successor.

Here's what's really, really interesting. We understand that leadership matters. We understand that

if you're going to try to destabilize Iran's terrorist power, if you're going to try to return the Middle East to some status apiece, you're going to have to have different leadership.

That doesn't always mean better leadership, but it is clear that Israel and the United States, and that means in particular, Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, and Donald Trump,

the president of the United States, have come to the determination that even the worst-case

scenario can't be much worse than what was the situation before the joint attacks began,

which is to say, regardless of what happens and how in the world do you measure that,

perhaps two years after the

war ends or five years 10 years the point is that taking this action in the calculus of the

United States and of Israel was absolutely necessary it was justified by the fact that for 47 plus

years Iran has posed a major threat to world peace. Well, there's more to it than

that. When we think about it, have you been following all the criticisms of President Trump

saying that the president and members of his administration have been giving conflicting and

inconsistent rationales for why the war, why this war, why now. The interesting thing is that there are those

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