"The Ayatollahs, the 'terror regime' as they say on Fox News, will be in place, and that's not a win, that's a loss. .
U.S. military bases in the region have been destroyed, certainly badly damaged. U.S. military personnel have withdrawn, retreated — that's not good, that's not a display of power, that's a display of weakness. There's no way to spin that, that's a loss.
This war has cost hundreds of billions of dollars, U.S. taxpayer dollars…That's a loss.
Commodities prices have risen…That's a loss, that's a tax on people who buy things in the United States.
And then, of course, Americans have been killed. It's not clear how many because there's an awful lot of lying about it, but it's a substantial number, more than a dozen, maybe much more than that, we don't know yet. So Americans have died.
America's gotten poorer. America's become weaker, demonstrably — we can't open the Strait of Hormuz, which is the overriding objective of this war, we can't do it by force, that's been proven. And the regime that we described as illegitimate — this crazed theocracy, those Stone Age people — are going to, when this is all over, remain in control of Iran. Those are losses, just objectively."
