Sorry, if we get Iran to where they can't hurt their neighbors, they can't control the straits, and they get about, you know, we allow the business as usual to happen in commerce around the world. Think of this. We won't have to have 40,000 troops in the Middle East. We do. At all those bases. Yeah, all those bases. We don't have to. The only reason they're there is because of Iran. And you start thinking about it. (08:46–08:51)
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