So that's going to require a lot of careful thinking if that eventuality ever presents itself. On the issue of our presence in the region. Here's the baseline I want to set for everybody. The baseline is this. We have 30 to 40,000 American troops stationed across eight or nine facilities in [the Middle East] region. All are within the reach, theoretically, not theoretically. In reality, all are within the reach of an array of thousands of Iranian one way UAVs and Iranian short term ballistic missiles, short range of ballistic missiles that threaten our troop presence. (1:53:23–1:53:29)
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