 But I'm also not the guy who sits around talking up my own pugilism when it's masked in what seems to me to be a capitulation to the rhetorical flourishes of the left. No, I could not disagree with you more. I do believe that had George H.W. Bush gone to Baghdad, we would not have had the problems that we had. And if George W. Bush had gone to Syria and Iran, we would have had a very successful war. And that, unfortunately, elites afraid of conflict curtailed those issues.