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Trump himself appeared to echo that sentiment when he acknowledged the stakes at the onset of the operation, saying "the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost." "But we're doing this not for now, we're doing this for the future, and it is a noble mission," Trump said in a video address announcing the start of major combat operations.
Did they swap him out for Biden when we weren't looking? Holy shit. 
"Your lives may be lost, but that's a risk I'm willing to take" 
everything is gambling now, even imperialism
"Operation Epic Fury"
Trump must have loved that.
Evil pro-military think tanks are - of course - evil. But I hate "peace" think tanks even more. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a great example. They are just as ghoulish but they add lies about peace.
Trump called on Iranians to topple the government but that is easier said than done, said Nicole Grajewski with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "The Iranian opposition is pretty fragmented. It's unclear what the population is willing to do in terms of rising up," Grajewski said.
"The Iranian opposition is pretty fragmented. It's unclear what the population is willing to do in terms of rising up,"
If there is a power vacuum, it's going to be filled by the people with the most guns, as per usual.
During the height of the genocide in Gaza - one of MSNBC's go-to guys was a guy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. I hate watched him. His appearances were like something out of seventh-rate fiction. A "peace" guy spewing nonsense comments in defense of an apartheid state literally committing genocide in real time. I bookmarked him because I'm super-terrible at names: Aaron David Miller.
I ended up having to stop watching whenever he was on. You can only hate-doing something if there's at least a minimal level of amusement. But as the genocide dragged on - I couldn't watch anybody like him with any sense of amusement at all. Instead [redacted].
Months later because it was destroying my soul - I entirely stopped watching cable tv news coverage of the genocide. We have new "peace" related horrors so I'm sure MS NOW will choose a couple of go-to "peace" ghouls to pontificate the wonders of stuff like regime change. It hardly matters if Miller is one of the ghouls or not. They're all basically the same. I wonder how many times I can hate watch them before - again - [redacted].
Months later because it was destroying my soul - I entirely stopped watching cable tv news coverage of the genocide.
I'm sure you don't need someone parenting you about this, but taking a step back is more than valid. Its necessary. It feels like shit - I'm sure the people of Gaza wish they could 'tune out the news', but there's no use wrecking your mental health either.
global thermonuclear exchange is also "high risk, high reward" as a gamble.
like maybe you nuke everybody and they all just capitulate and then earth is renamed "the united states" and everybody loves you for finally unifying the planet under one nation.
alternatively, maybe 6 billion people die and the luckiest suits get to live in a cave in west virginia for a few years, arguing over who gets the last Lasagna MREs before the water filtration fails and the toilets clog.
He does own casinos. But he's not the house in this case.
Is it easier to bankrupt a casino or a country?
We're about to find out in 2 weeks I guess