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Dave Smith

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
38426 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Defending the Indefensible

You're just a comedian.

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Defending the Indefensible

Who is this Scott Horton guy, you know, who you say is the best foreign policy guy in the country?

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Defending the Indefensible

He goes, yep, that's right.

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Defending the Indefensible

21 years ago, what Donald Trump thought was totally nobody had ever thought that this might happen.

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Defending the Indefensible

Well, actually, yeah.

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Defending the Indefensible

Someone did.

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Defending the Indefensible

Many people did.

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Defending the Indefensible

But anyway, but just in terms of the logistics, sorry, Rob, let me just say this and then you can go.

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Defending the Indefensible

In terms of logistics, because the major issues here are, okay, first of all, you're putting your Navy off the coast of Iran.

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Defending the Indefensible

Okay, that is right well within range of their medium range intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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Defending the Indefensible

So that's issue number one.

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Defending the Indefensible

They got all types of drones and missiles left at this point.

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Defending the Indefensible

Clearly, they're still hitting targets.

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Defending the Indefensible

Now you just gave them a lot more targets.

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Defending the Indefensible

OK, that's issue number one.

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Defending the Indefensible

Issue number two is that, OK, so let's say China or someone, you know, gets permission from the Iranians to go through the Strait.

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Defending the Indefensible

We are now illegally in waters that do not belong to the United States of America going to start harassing, stopping, potentially even turning around other ships, Chinese ships.

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Defending the Indefensible

Okay, now...

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Defending the Indefensible

We got a huge international issue here.