Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You Were Wrong with Molly Hemingway, editor-in-chief of the Federalist and David Harsani,

senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to email the show,

please do so at radio at thefederalist.com. We'd love to hear from you. Molly, there's a war on.

A lot of negativity out there. Have you noticed that about the war or am I misreading what's going on?

No. I think that we are taping this on day like 11 or something of the war. It's in the early days.

It seems that there are debates about the war, but the war itself seems to be going fairly well, as you

might expect, given our overwhelming military might. What are you what are you hearing though?

You're hearing negativity? Yeah. Maybe I have the I mean, maybe I'm on Twitter or X too,

too much because I think that's a place where negative negativity thrives.

But people are already kind of wringing their hands over how long it's taking over, you know, the, the, the oil prices, legitimate concern, right?

Or especially oil prices, even though they've, they've dropped today significantly from the other day.

But you don't know, I can't predict what's going to happen there, and neither can anyone else.

But I think the war is going spectacularly well, far better than perhaps any military conflict we've engaged in,

in the sense that we have decapitated the enemy we are meticulously

destroying their entire military infrastructure we have gone after their leadership they are the

revolutionary guard within the country i you know i don't know exactly because we don't know

exactly what all the aims are as far as getting to certain kinds of nuclear material or whatever.

No war is perfect.

War is always going to have unintended consequences like we discussed.

But I think it's going incredibly well.

The messaging hasn't been great always.

But even if we picked up and left

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