Ben Wittes
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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We prevented Iran from developing a nuclear weapon if we did.
Right.
How do you compare that to the value of 300 hospitals?
But you can't compare.
We blew up this stuff.
we obliterated this stuff.
The dollar value of that is always negative.
And the amazing thing about this war is that they've never even tried to articulate what the non-obliteration value of it is.
What are we trying to do?
And
Now the irony is that what we're trying to do is to get back to something like the steady state that we had before the war.
That's called strategic failure.
Right.
Or if you can't answer Bernie Sanders or Graham Platner with the it was worth it because we accomplished this.
It was worth it because we kicked Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.
Right.
Right.
It was worth it because we stopped a genocide in Kosovo.
It was worth it because we did something, right?
We accomplished something, and that was worth the expenditure of money.
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