Mike Benz on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Gutfeld” discussed the future implications of the joint US-Israeli airstrikes in Iran. “In this case, I think everyone is wowed right now over the overwhelming firepower and the incredible capability of our brave men and women,” Benz said of the strike. “They’re, even in the best-case scenario, there’s going to have to be some form of nation-building, and that is going to be a decades-long process.” “It is going to be difficult to see a way that does not involve hundreds of thousands of casualties, which is unlike the kind of maneuvers we’ve seen from Trump’s restraint in the past,” Benz said of the Iranian people.

GUTFELD: Mr. Benz, all right, I am a little bit, like, cautiously optimistic. I place all my hope on the fact that Trump gets bored really easily, so he never gets involved in something that he can’t quickly get out of. Is that a fair summation? BENZ: I hope that’s the case. You know, you’re talking about a nation of 90 million people. There’s, you know, 80 million Shiite Muslims. There’s, in that country, there’s a quarter billion around the world. You know, this is going to have long-term implications, and there will be bright, shiny objects emanating from this that will force the president’s attention, whether he gets bored of it or not. It will, I think the fallout from this will be something we’ll be living with for a long time. GUTFELD: Really, really, you’re not bullish on this move? BENZ: I think that the initial forays into every major military action come with the kind of Team America, World Police, America, F-yeah kind of thing. This was our bombs over Baghdad. This was Afghanistan. This was Iraq. In this case, I think everyone is wowed right now over the overwhelming firepower and the incredible capability of our brave men and women. They’re, even in the best-case scenario, there’s going to have to be some form of nation-building, and that is going to be a decades-long process. GUTFELD: It’s interesting, though. I guess I look at Trump differently than I do these previous things in the past. And maybe I’m being too generous, but I look at, like, what he did to the nukes, what he did to Maduro, Soleimani. He always seems like he’s very selfish about his time, about our money and our blood and treasure. He doesn’t like… You think he hasn’t weighed this fully through? BENZ: I think this is a surprising action because it is the opposite of what has been done in the past. In 2018, with Syria, when there was the allegations of sarin gas attacks, there were military strikes that were done. It was his first time doing that. He was very deeply applauded by the media, but they were targeted, limited. When we took out Soleimani, that was a single strike against one military leader. When the Fordow strikes happened, they were targeted, limited. We’re now up to over 2,000 sites that have been struck, as well as not just the Ayatollah, but the entire leadership, over 50 of the top government, military, financial, even judges. It is… It is going to be difficult to see a way that does not involve hundreds of thousands of casualties, which is unlike the kind of maneuvers we’ve seen from Trump’s restraint in the past.

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