Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 4 Mar
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You can have a living assessment, but you can't have a conclusion.
So do you not operate?
If you're a foreign policy decision maker, if you're a president, if you're a national security advisor, you have to give advice and consent.
You have to figure out something.
You can't say, I have a lack of evidence, or I have a lack of opinion, or a lack of information, and therefore, because I can't corroborate or verify, there's no Venn diagram of overlapping views.
That's when you have to use time as a tool.
You have to use time to be the tool that you use to collect more information.
If you give up time, you give up one of your most important tools, which is what we're giving up with this attack.
We're giving up time so that we can potentially just fit a calendar, January, February, March.
That's why, what did we actually gain?
How did the United States actually tangibly benefit
from what just happened in Iran?
The United States, how did we?
If in four months from now, before the midterm elections, there is new leadership in Iran, entirely new, if there is regime change, in other words, if there is, by the president's own metrics, victory,
Will you change your tune on this?
What did we gain?
What if it's not evident right now?
What if it is in four months?
Yeah, it's a living assessment.
So, of course, for all we know, the president's decision is going to work out.
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