The United States has launched a major attack on Iran.

This targeting not just some periphery sites, but the very center of government.

The explicit goal of the strike is regime change in Iran, not merely the setting back of a nuclear program or other weapons programs.

This is the real deal.

No one is particularly surprised by this,

especially after the strike on Venezuela,

because in the lead up to Venezuela,

you saw this huge, gradual buildup of military assets in the region,

you saw the extension from the White House

of all sorts of diplomatic olive branches.

Maduro refused the olive branches. Then the U.S. went in and took him out. So you saw the same

thing building up here. A few weeks ago, people were waiting for the United States to launch a strike on

Iran. But I remember I was on with Hugh Hewitt, and we agreed, no, probably we were seeing the same

playbook play out, which is there

was going to be this buildup of military assets, there are going to be more diplomatic

olive branches, and then when that was not going to work, Trump was going to strike.

Here is the political issue for the White House.

Iran is not Venezuela.

Iran is not Venezuela. Iran is not Venezuela. Iran is not Afghanistan. Iran is not Iraq, though there are way more parallels with Iraq. Iran is a real country with a real

solid regime. And so changing out that regime is going to be a little bit more difficult.

Obviously, there are a lot of people who are elated by the strike on Iran. Notably, the Iranian

Americans whose families fled from Iran after the revolution in 1979, but also plenty of the Iranian people

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