Mental acuity

Via The Bulwark. My transcription:

“Well, the intelligence was very inconclusive. The intelligence says we don’t know. It could have been very severe. That’s what the intelligence says. So I guess that’s correct. But I think we can take the “we don’t know.” It was very severe. It was obliteration. Ah — and you think that a media outlet would say, “Isn’t that a great thing?” I mean, more important for the pilots, for the military. You take their guts out. You take their absolute guts out. They had a tremendous attack. There was a complete obliteration. The other team, the other, the other group, Iran, said, “Let’s stop this.” And you know what? Israel said it too. Very smart. They fought like hell and then they said, “Let’s stop.” And they’re gonna build themselves — and I really see it as [thinking?] — I mean, we may do papers on it, Marco, maybe we’re going to do papers, I don’t even know if you need them. They’re not going to be fighting each other. They’ve had it. They’ve had a big fight, like two kids in a school yard. You know, they fight like hell? You can’t stop ’em. Let ’em fight for about two, three minutes. Then it’s easier to stop ’em.”

The intelligence very inconclusive, but it was obliteration. And sometimes two and two are four, five, and three, all of them at once.

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