Fox guest responding to Hegseth presser: “The reality is the US has already won this war, period. Mic drop. End of statement.”
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From the March 13, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): What did you get from this presser?
JAMES CARAFANO (GUEST): Look, I think the most important thing was said in the first seconds which is: The reality is the U.S. has already won this war, period. Mic drop. End of statement. Iran was the greatest destabilizing threat to U.S. interests in that part of the world. If we stop the war, before this conversation is finished, if the war is stopped, it would be more than a decade before Iran got back to where it was a year ago. They're not going to try this again while Trump is president because he'll pound them into the dust. So then -- in three years from now if we all just sat on our hands and nobody did anything, and just watched them rebuild, and the Russians came in, and the Chinese came in, to get back to where they were with the surrogates, with the missiles, with their nuclear program, that would take them at least a decade. The president of the United States just bought a decade of peace and opportunity in this region. And remember the rest of the region isn't going to sit by and do nothing for the next 10 years, they're going to get missile defense, they're going to get air defense, they're going to cooperate together, they're going to build their economies. Iran is never coming back in the game as the big boogie man, ever.