Clay Travis

It would end the danger of China or Russia or North Korea or Iran, whatever foreign interests bear ill design to the United States from them being able to have close proximity to the United States.

It would tie in with the so-called Donro Doctrine, which is really just a modification, an extension of the Monroe Doctrine, that the United States controls this hemisphere.

I just think it's a no-brainer.

What's your take on this?

There's about 8.5 million people who live in Cuba.

Millions.

What do you think?

What's the Cuban population in the United States, Cuban-born or Cuban descent?

Five, six million probably at least, I would think.

I also think it's been under-discussed that maybe the biggest impact immediately of Venezuela was cutting off the supply of oil to Cuba and creating an opportunity to have, quote-unquote, a friendly takeover in Cuba, more so than in Venezuela.

Let me also say, Buck, I think this is important because you're now seeing the same arguments that were made before we struck Iran.

And those arguments are, oh, my goodness, to your point, we're going to be going to war.

The danger is going to be huge, paramount, all of these different things.

Why didn't that happen when we took out Iran in the so-called, was it 12-day war before Iran?

Iran has no ability to actually push back in any kind of significant way.

And if they had, they would have done that back in the time of the first attack, June of last year.

The challenge with Iran, as I see it, is who takes over?

Because I do think if we really let Iran have it, the Ayatollah's ability to maintain control in Iran is significantly curtailed.

And we're going to talk, by the way, with Deborah Lee about Iran at the top of the next hour and see what she thinks on the timings and everything else associated with it.

And you were in Iraq, Buck.