— The two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies,
uncontested airspace.
— Operation Epic Fury continues, with more casualties,
more Middle Eastern countries being drawn in, and more swagger from Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth.
— Flying over their capital, flying over the IRGC, Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only U.S.
and Israeli airpower.
Every minute of every day until we decide it's over.
The administration seems to have a great appetite for describing the theater of war in the moment.
Leaders killed, worship sunk, airspace conquered.
Death and destruction from the sky all day long.
but much less so for the more abstract questions of the war.
Why did the U.S.
go in in the first place?
Why is American blood and money worth the cost?
And what is the ultimate goal?
I'm Hannah Rosen.
This is Radio Atlantic.
Later in the show, I talked to Jeanne Shaheen,
the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
about what legislators can do to get answers.