Andrew Klavan

Getting the Strait back open, well, great.

It was already open before this, so it's hard to see that we could say that that was a good reason for the war to start.

And I also think that...

And my own personal view that I've been very open about is that I don't think this is in America's best interest.

I think that there were a lot of breezy assurances made by proponents of this war early on.

You guys were talking about a little bit about that, that there's like basically no downside.

It'll be perfectly fine.

It's treating Iran like they're not even a country.

It's just it's we're comparing it to Venezuela.

Totally different situation and not enough

wrestling with the real ramifications of doing something like this.

And I gotta say, that's one thing that's really frustrated me about this entire thing.

And I think it was reflected in the conversation yesterday about Trump's Truth Social post about how we're gonna, the entire civilization is gonna die.

And for someone who tries to be reasonable about these things, it's really frustrating because what I see is, yeah, on one side you have some people who do panic about it and they act as though there's a chance that Trump will actually just nuke Iran and kill everybody.

And I think that most of us who are rational knew that that was just not gonna happen.

But on the other end of the spectrum,

You have people who are proponents of this war and reflexive defenders of it acting as though there is no reasonable criticism a person could make of a president saying publicly the entire civilization will die.

Like a reasonable person, a rational person can obviously without panicking, you're not being a panicking, you're not saying that the sky's falling, but you can look at that and say, huh, you know,

I don't know if that's the best strategy.

And I also don't know if morally it's like ever okay to threaten to kill an entire civilization, even if you get your way.