Dave Smith

Number one, you don't live there.

You don't actually know what's going on.

any more than i know what's going on like it's be me talking about like germany because my grandfather lived there but i don't know that was a hundred years ago and it's like i i've never been there but then also

You know, the people, obviously, like if you get people who flee from a regime, that is a contaminated sample of a study, right?

Like these are people who didn't like that regime.

And so, of course, they like to imagine that that's the dominant sentiment in the same way that we like to imagine that everyone who supported Donald Trump was against all these wars.

But no, that's not actually everyone.

That's a percentage.

But then they all convince you that, oh, everybody's going to love you if you do this.

And the problem is that, you know, I remember people used to point out that how unpopular Saddam Hussein was.

Yeah.

The people don't actually love that.

And that's totally true, right?

Saddam Hussein was wildly unpopular in his country.

His country is 60% Shiites.

They didn't support Saddam Hussein.

But that's not really the fucking issue now, is it?

The real question is how are they going to respond when you kill 175 of their little girls?

And then the other issue is like, okay, even if it's true that there's not a majority support.

By the way, there's not majority support anywhere for anything that any government does.