Dave Smith
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yeah yeah right well he what is he got up was it in lebanon he got like these banking charges in jordan i'm sorry that's right it was in jordan that he got like they basically like raised reserve requirements and then were like auditing the banks and then they found out he didn't have
any of the reserve like he was just like got all types of like fraud trouble and like that and it was like of course once you start saying well um you're gonna get the united states of america to put you in the seat of power well then you've got a little bit of a conflict of interest that's a mighty big incentive for a lot of people to want to go along with that um
But, yeah, I mean, look, I think like one of almost like the knocks that people will have on on guys like me and you is they'll go, oh, my God, not everything is the war in Iraq.
Not everything has to be, you know, you can't like and you guys are always living, you know, back in 2003 or whatever.
Well, look, man, there were lessons that were learned from these things.
And a lot of these lessons are like a rack turned into a catastrophe for reasons, for reasons that were predictable, reasons that were predictable by Dick Cheney, who explained very clearly himself a few years prior what would happen if we created that quagmire.
And like as I was making this point on the show the other day, it's like like this point about exiles.
This is a common theme amongst exiles.
Like and the truth is that there is a there's it's not.
This is the way I said it the other day.
It's not like when you when you collapse a regime.
And or you overthrow a regime and something bad comes next, something worse comes next.
That's not just like it's not like in the war on terrorism.
It's like, oh, we just we flipped a coin six times and it landed on tails six times.
But, you know, this next time it's still a 50 50.
It's like, no, that happens for reasons, because you're going to start creating this amount of bloodshed.