Andrew Klavan

There's some other reason that they, the pundits, can explain to me, but the administration cannot.

Is there any reason, though, is there any reason to think that, let's say the ceasefire holds, and I don't know how likely that is to happen.

Let's say that it does, and then so then this is the status quo.

Whether or not this was worth it, whether or not it worked, whatever that means, because as we've established, we don't really exactly know what the goals are.

um that's not something we can judge right now and and that's that's the other other frustrating thing about the war proponents is that they're like as soon as the ceasefire was announced you had people saying you see it all worked out fine it's been 10 seconds i mean yeah if if this goes bad i'm not saying it's going to go bad because we're going to have a nuclear war i'm not i know maybe there's some people say oh it's going to be a world war it's going to be a nuclear holocaust

I am not saying that I think that most skeptics of the war aren't really saying that.

Maybe some of the loudest voices are, but most aren't.

I think most of us who are skeptical are saying that, yeah, it might work out fine in the short run, but there's no reason to think that in the long term, we're gonna be in a better position with Iran than we were before it.

And there's good reason to think that it might end up worse because what history has clearly shown us, including the recent history of the Middle East,

is that when you create a power vacuum, if they've even successfully done that, which I don't know that they have, but even if they did do that,

especially in the Middle East, what happens is the power vacuum gets filled and it's going to invariably be filled, not by like the nicest, most democratic, most liberal minded secular people.

It's going to be filled by the people who are the most brutal and the most ruthless and the most, especially in the Middle East, the most fundamentalists are willing to kill the most people to claim power.

No, look at him for crying out loud.

They each have a piggy bank in their room, and I put a quarter in the piggy bank every month.

And hopefully I live a lot of months, so they'll have money when I'm gone.

But right now, that's my whole plan.

Well, this is the thing.

I mean, I've...

Not to bring it back, I'm trying to avoid bringing our conversation circling back to Iran again.

I will admit this is one of the main reasons why I have opposed it, opposed the Iran war, and I still do.