Dave Smith

First of all, when you say things like... If... Like, this is a dirty trick.

I know I've taken this on on the show before.

But they'll say this thing, right?

If the Palestinians were to lay down all their arms, we'd have peace.

If the Israelis were to lay down all their arms, we'd have genocide.

Well...

this would almost be like on the level of you know let's say you were alive in 2003 well i guess we were all alive in 2003. let's say it was 2003. george w bush is making his it's early 2003 he's making his case for why he has to invade iraq and he's like you know they have weapons of mass destruction um they're they're uh friends with the terrorists they were in on 9 11. we can't allow them to get a nuclear weapon and

hand it off to a terrorist and then we got a nuke exploding in kansas also the war will be quick and easy we'll be greeted as liberators it'll be paid for in oil it'll be a cake walk okay

So George Bush is saying all of that.

And then someone correctly comes out and counters and go, it will not be a cakewalk.

It'll be a catastrophe.

It'll cost trillions of dollars.

It'll kill hundreds of thousands of people.

They don't have weapons of mass destruction.

They're not in bed with the terrorists, right?

So like you have these two arguments, clearly one in hindsight turned out to be correct.

The other is what we did.

And let's say someone in the middle of that argument went, no, no, no, no, no.

Everyone stop everything.

I want you to imagine a thought experiment.