But you know, Carg island, while important to them now, they could still produce oil without it. Right. And so I think, you know, the idea that We could lose 10 or 20,000 marines on an oil island. really didn't sit well with most Americans. And so I think that's where there is a difference between a conflict and a war and ensuring we don't have traditional conventional … (42:02–42:06)
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