Jessie Stephens
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He does have this naive view.
And I'm always trying to get inside his head.
I'm trying to present to you what he would say if he was sitting with us.
I think his view is, I want peace.
I want to help people who are living under regimes that are treating them cruelly and treating them with violence.
So I'm going to do what I can with the might of the U.S.
military to get rid of these regimes for you.
Now, the problem is he doesn't think much beyond getting rid of the regime.
This is exactly what happened in Venezuela, too.
He got rid of Nicolas Maduro, who was the president, but then he kind of said, I've lost interest in you now.
I'm moving on.
And I suspect the same thing is going to happen with Iran.
He said that he doesn't want to send any ground troops in.
This is just a campaign that's taking place in the air.
It's very unlikely that you can unseat this 30-plus year regime that's in place with a week of bombing.
No, and he's also asking them for this extraordinary bravery bordering on recklessness.
Just last month, 30,000 Iranians were killed by this regime.
The Ayatollah had set in place this whole structure of power in Iran called the Revolutionary Guard Court.
Every town, every city, they know what everyone's doing.
There's a lot of surveillance.