Annie Jacobsen

That was the Democratic President Clinton's position.

And as a result, North Korea developed nuclear weapons and now has nuclear weapons and the nuclear weapons systems to strike the United States.

And has demonstrated, you know, a desire if provoked or actually has said if provoked it would do so.

And so, you know, that was not going to happen with Iran, certainly not on this watch and probably not on any watch.

Absolutely.

You can't mess with somebody who has a nuclear weapon.

And you don't.

Well, it's the same thing.

It's only perhaps – well, now this regime is up.

We don't know what will happen with it.

But having an – correct me on this pronunciation – the idea that the Shia idea that the sort of apocalyptic end is not necessarily a bad thing.

Yes, there's kind of an undergirding the Islamic regime's thinking is this idea.

And that's very dangerous to the idea that we don't want to have a nuclear war.

Well, in terms of the Middle East, it certainly was an effective move because all of these six countries that Iran has now attacked in the past 48 hours are now very angry with Iran.

So the burden sharing has gone from kind of like this is a fight that we're not in to this is a fight we are in.

But they're not happy with that.

They weren't happy before.

I mean, we've never even seen anything like that.

That has nothing to do with Iran.

That has nothing to do with Iran.