Ben Shapiro downplays American ground troops in Iran: There will be “squads of, you know, at most, a few hundred who are performing special operations”
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From the March 30, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): I mean, I think it is almost impossible that the president is going to put mass troops on the ground. He's — there are apparently 50,000 troops in theater. You're not going to see 20,000 troops on the ground. You're not going to see 10,000 troops on the ground. You're going to see squads of, you know, at most, a few hundred who are performing special operations, which, again, we do that all over the world. So doing it in Iran in the middle of a military operation would not be a gigantic surprise. An operation on Kharg Island would not require an amphibious assault — I saw Jennifer Griffin at Fox News tweet something unbelievably stupid the other day. She's like, well, if there's an amphibious invasion of Kharg Island, you know how many we lost at Iwo Jima? I was like, umm, if you think that Kharg Island is Iwo Jima, I'd like to introduce you to this, a book. Like, that's just crazy. It's just crazy talk.