this president, but i think he has a smart instinct on war in the middle east. he doesn't like the idea of quagmi quagmires. syria isn't how i would have done it, but what is happening now is people who have spent a long time thinking about how they might draw the united states into a conflict with iran, and i'm talking about chiefly john bolton, mike pompeo, people in the middle east who would love to have us do their bidding, saudi arabia being at the top of that list. they're setting up a situation where war becomes inevitable. so if they can set up enough tension, enough heat where the iranians make a mistake or deliberately take a swipe at a u.s. naval vessel or whatever it might be, we will be in yet another war in the middle east, which is why this letter to the president is so important because this is the time for everybody to step back, take a