Bonus Quote of the Day

“Is that boots on the ground? No, not like inside Iran where they’re in the cities. Where we go through circumstances that we’ve had in the past of large areas of population combatants against us. And it is a mess. I am against the what I call the mass moving people, Marines, snipers into population areas.”

— Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), quoted by the Daily Beast, arguing that sending U.S. troops to secure Kharg Island wouldn’t really constitute “boots on the ground.”