Ben Rhodes
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Like, I don't want to go, I don't want to be too, Oh, he killed the Supreme leader.
I don't want to look, you know, like, look.
It's like a Gulf War I hangover from 1991.
It's crazy.
And here's the thing.
We should just be anti-war.
Full stop.
Unless there's an imminent threat that absolutely compels this nation to take military action, the Democratic Party should be morally, legally, ethically, priority-wise, because we want to spend money at home instead of abroad.
The easiest political message in the world to deliver.
That is not a hard message to deliver.
We are spending more money on munitions in the
Persian Gulf right now than on the ACA subsidies that were cut.
You don't need to be a Dan Pfeiffer to decipher this one.
Shout out, Dan.
Shout out, Dan.
Shout out, Polar Coaster.
Yeah, the point being is that even if this is the best case scenario, which I don't think it's going to be for all the reasons you said, I would still be against it.
Because as a matter of principle, and frankly, to be in line with public opinion, particularly the public opinion of our own people in the
Like we need to be against this.
And so I just really hope we start to see like more of a pulse from the Democrats and not just like we want to have this vote on this, which props to Ro Khanna.