Bryan Callen
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Talk about ignorance.
I mean, so there was a story back when we pulled out of Afghanistan during the whole thing about art that had been put up for gay rights.
I cannot find it.
It's been five years, four and a half years.
So if I can't figure that one out, well, then just take it with a grain of salt.
But there are stories about, like this one, for instance, back when the U.S.
was in Afghanistan and putting up pride flags, as well as the flying of pride flags at all of the U.S.
embassies and murals that we put up.
on our territory in a bunch of these countries.
So the so I think one of the issues is it's one thing to say that we are a classically liberal country that believes in free speech and we must spread democracy.
But then you get the incessant defense of
You know, look, I know people in the United States are very pro-gay, but these countries are not.
And so if you're a global power and you're like, we are going to be an affront to your values, I mean, it's probably one of the principal reasons Iran does not like us and won't fall in line, because they're like, they're a bunch of heathens.
It's Sodom and Gomorrah.
I wonder what the Iranian government thought of abortions in the United States.
There you go.
And so you can invert the position and try and understand what these other countries are thinking.
Now, by all means, I think the Iranian government is a theocratic, militant, backwards, you know, way of living.
And I wouldn't want them to impose that on us.
So imagine China, the Communist Party of China, is the unipolar power.