Bob Kagan
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first heard Feb 2026
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The Bulwark Daily · Robert Kagan and Marianne Williamson: Slipping Into Dictatorship · 4 Feb 2026
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And I'm sorry that they've been put in this position, but they are now a potential weapon against democracy.
And Trump wants to use them that way.
So that's the domestic side of it.
On the foreign policy side of it, I'm sort of amused in a way.
We are now back to the 1990s when the Clinton administration and others, including people like Don Rumsfeld and Richard Perle, they thought they could solve every problem by bombing.
The notion that you can accomplish things on the ground simply by bombing places is
was demonstrated to be wrong in the 1990s.
And Trump hasn't shown unusual courage internationally.
The reason we used ground troops in Iraq in 2003 was that bombing Iraq didn't accomplish any objectives, as we learned.
And so my question is,
What are we accomplishing from bombing Iran?
And by the way, I would like to see very much this regime fall.
I pray for the Iranian people that this regime falls.
But if you ask me, does Trump actually give a hoot about democracy in Iran or the people of Iran?
In Venezuela, he turned the government over to the next in command of the dictator that had to be removed because he was so terrible.
So who are they going to hand the government over to in Iran in the event that Iran actually falls?
But I'm even skeptical that bombing is really the solution to anything right now.
So until you show me an actual plan with an actual outcome that I can imagine, I just think Trump, this is all about Trump.
It's about his glory.
It's about, look at me, I can bomb places, et cetera, et cetera.
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