Eddie Fishman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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that wasn't something that Saddam Hussein even was developing, which made it even more ironic.
George W. Bush did decide to try to use nonviolent pressure against Iran.
That was the baton he passed to President Obama.
There've been other decisions.
I mean, look, one of the decisions that I think Obama took most heat over was the Syria red line.
If you remember,
Oh, yes, when he said there's a red line in the sand.
Yeah, he said if Assad uses chemical weapons, we will attack, we will strike.
And I think, you know, basically his whole administration was gearing up ready to bomb Syria and sort of basically living up to Obama's red line.
And then Obama sort of went for a walk in the backyard of the White House and said, you know what, I don't want to do this.
And so there have been moments in history when, you know, presidents have sort of chosen to go the opposite way of their advisors for good and for ill.
And I think to your point, I mean, we'll see when the sort of definitive history is written on Trump's decision to attack Iran.
But it does seem, if you can trust some of the early reports, that Trump was sort of a lonely voice in terms of wanting to strike Iran in February of this year.
And unfortunately, his voice is the one that actually mattered.
You know what I mean?
So on Russia, I mean, it's something that's an issue near and dear to my heart.
I actually sort of was very interested in Russian history, Russian literature.
My great-grandparents emigrated to the United States from the former Russian Empire.
And, you know, spent a summer when I was in college living in Russia, sort of before our relationship has gone sideways.
I've now, by the way, been sanctioned by Russia, so I can never go back, unfortunately.
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