James Talarico

We have just seen more of our brave men and women in uniform dying in this conflict.

I know the president said this was going to be short term pain.

You tell that to the parents of those fallen soldiers.

That's not short-term pain.

That is a lifetime of pain.

And for what?

We can support the democracy movement in Iran.

We can prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

Both should absolutely be priorities of our foreign policy.

But it should be done through our partnerships with allies.

It should be done using our economic strength, through our intelligence community.

But this kind of military intervention without much forethought, without much explanation, to me just reminds me of the forever wars.

that it feels like the president promised we were going to move past.

And now we're right back in another forever war in the Middle East.

So I think we should try to achieve those goals through non-military means.

I think that was succeeding.

And I think we're going to see all of those issues get much worse because of this reckless intervention in Iran.

Yeah, and I do think it's a problem.

I think this is intergenerational theft and we are saddling my generation, we're saddling Gen Zers, we're saddling future generations with this debt.

And so the choice that we're often presented with is cutting spending or raising revenue.