Dave Smith

That being said, you do kind of, you wonder.

I mean, you know, you're banking there on the Iranians acting rationally.

And I don't know that there's a whole lot of evidence that you start dropping bombs on countries and you slaughter their leader and their whole family and kill a bunch of little girls and destroy a bunch of their energy production and all this, that then they act rationally after that.

You know, it was in... Obviously, this is a different generation, and this was right at the beginning of this regime.

But in the 1980 through I think it was I think it went to like 1986 war with Iraq.

You know, Iraq invaded.

They had superior military force.

They had weapons from the West.

They had the U.S.

backing them.

They had chemical weapons, which Saddam Hussein used.

And the fucking Iranians wouldn't talk to them for like years.

Like even when people were trying to work out like negotiations for a ceasefire, the Iranians were like, fuck you.

We will fight to the last man.

They took deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, way more damage than they've taken in this war.

And they just kept fighting because this is like the Shiite warrior spirit or whatever.

And also, you know, in lots of different ways, I think one of the things we've, you know,

Iran, which guys like me have been saying for a long time, Iran is not Afghanistan.

This isn't a country of illiterate goat herders.

These are smart people.