I recognize that look and their eyes, that was a look that I would have when I was in college and my professor was asking me my take on The Odyssey and I said, exquisite writing, exquisite writing' and then I would ramble. Those are two of the stupidest answers I've ever heard in my life.
And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties ... And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't act. Obviously, we were aware of Israeli intentions and understood what that would mean for us, and we had to be prepared to act as a result of it. But this had to happen no matter what.