2026-04-03
56 分钟So the three headlines from the president's speech last night,
at least in the short term, are no ground troops, did n't mention ground troops.
Yes, we are getting out in some number of weeks by the end of April.
And there's not going to be regime change.
Regime change, as he said explicitly, is not our goal.
Are those true?
Well, of course, you can't tell.
You can't know at this point, as Trump himself said.
This has been a very short engagement relative to, say, the First or Second World War, or Vietnam.
But all of those wars began with similar promises.
This won't last long, backed by fall, all the kind of famous slogans that.
We chuckle about, ironically, decades later.
They had no idea what they were getting into.
And that is true, again, for every conflict.
The second people start dying, you really don't know where it's going to end.
And that goes for this conflict too.
And all kinds of things could happen between right now and resolution.
And some of them are awful.
And there are also, by the way, signs that.
There is, as there always is, quite a distance between what politicians tell us and what they 're actually