Charles C.W. Cooke
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 29 Jul
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They are that the Iranian theocracy is a dictatorship.
It is.
that Iran is effectively at war with the United States and has targeted us for 45 years and killed our people and paid other people to kill our people.
It has.
And that Iran is trying to destabilize the Middle East, including what it wants to do ultimately, which is nuke Israel.
That's also true.
But it would be good, I think, if we had one coherent message as to what it is that we're doing here.
So I worry, first off, that we don't, and I worry that the public hasn't been prepared for this, which is going to lead to, and in fact already has led to,
deaths.
But that doesn't mean that I'm against it.
I don't know is the honest answer.
I don't know how this is going to end.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know how this is going to end.
And I really would have liked a sustained debate in Congress or otherwise, so that I could have heard lots of different people
making the case as to whether it was a good or bad idea, what the risks were, what the risks of not going in were.
The one thing I am sure about, and on this Rich and I absolutely agree, is that the notion that this was a defensive act is ridiculous.
Again, that doesn't mean I'm against it, but this was not defensive.
It was not timely.
The president was not in the same sort of circumstances he would find himself in if, say, the United States were invaded.
This is a choice.
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