The deal window is open, and Matthew Hoh, Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan turned one of Washington's sharpest dissenters, makes the case for walking through it in the bluntest terms you'll hear:
"When you lose a war, you get out of the war."
That's the prize, and he means it as encouragement, not insult.
His breakdown of the arsenal math turns the whole depletion story on its head, and he asks the question nobody else has: if America is really this exposed, why is nobody attacking?
Then the confession only a two-war veteran could make, about the one cheap weapon that would have made the occupations he served in impossible, and why Iran is the first enemy in generations that spent decades preparing.
He also demolishes the fees-are-unthinkable talking point with a map of every strait on earth where payments already happen, before his warning about what a deal might really buy: time to reload.
The exit is right there.
The question is whether anyone in Washington can recognize a door.
@MatthewPHoh @WeTheBrandon
