David Friedman
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 1 Mar
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They're harmless to Israel, to the Gulf countries.
And I think that's a time that's quickly approaching.
Well, that's a great question.
I think Iran is different than, let's say, for example, than Iraq.
Iraq was a place where there were, it was never really a nation with a kind of a cohesive culture.
And identity was very tribal, very different groups that combined to kind of be kept under control.
Iran is a very different population.
I mean, they're not Arabs.
They're Persians, whatever that means.
I mean, they are culturally different.
Many of them are very well educated.
There is a, you know, an advanced movement already there, you know, for freedom and for democracy.
They've been held back only by the regime.
That's been their, you know, their blockage.
Now, you know, will a complete annihilation of the Iranian military result in a loss of the regime?
But this will be the best opportunity, you know, in the history of the, since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in the 1970s, this will be the best opportunity for the Iranian people to rise up, take back their country and reform their government and become allies of the West.
I don't know if it's going to happen, but the upside of that happening, if that does happen, even if there's some turbulence along the way, which I would expect, that opportunity for the future of that region and the world itself is so great it really is worth taking the chance.
I mean, the consequence of not doing this, of doing nothing, is a brutal, theocratic, dangerous Iranian regime that will threaten our children and our grandchildren.
Well, this is, you know, these are great philosophical questions that we can sit around and debate.
The answer is, of course, I don't know.
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