Benjamin Radd

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1,820 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 4 Mar

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And they want anything other than what this is.

You feel differently?

I think that that's an overly idealistic way of thinking about it.

We failed to convert Iraq when we took out Saddam Hussein.

We failed to convert Afghanistan when we took out the Taliban.

Iran is not Iraq and Afghanistan, though.

It is not.

I'm not saying it's the same.

I'm saying that when you change a government from the top down, that doesn't do anything for the people.

No one's changing it.

There's no nation building.

We're not going in and doing it in Iraq.

We're not crafting our constitution.

So what's going to build it?

What's going to change it?

The people?

The people that have been slaves for basically the last, what, 40, 50 years?

The people who have had no education?

The people who have been marginalized?

Do you think they're just going to understand how to organize themselves?

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