Jon Stewart
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I meant Great Britain.
You meant Great Britain.
That's what I meant.
Yeah, yeah.
You know that.
Even Farage is backing away from Trump at this moment.
Is it that Trump is... Although he did visit him at Mar-a-Lago, I think, last week.
Oh, well, if you can't get an audience with the king... He was stood up.
You know why?
He should have told him, I have in my pocket.
And then he would have been ushered in and been given a greeting there.
Are we... Look...
I want to go back to this because you were with, you said something earlier that I thought was really interesting.
There was a sincere belief that Saddam Hussein was a growing danger and that that is why, I don't think there's any question that the Ayatollah in Iran was a danger, but is that the bar that we now look at as, as intervention or,
And is it possible that the lesson of Iraq and Afghanistan and now Iran and all the way back to Sykes-Picot and whatever else we want to take it to is that the West can influence, but they can't control.
And that if we don't learn the difference between those two, we are destined for these
utterly foreseeable consequences of our kind of cavalier and arrogant interventions.
I think that's exactly what I'm saying.
And if you look at, so we have a view that
violence can solve any of these issues we did it in you know it wasn't just iraq and afghanistan it was uh libya it was syria we were arming rebel groups as we went through there and we can talk about is iraq in a better place than it was under saddam hussein i think the question is is that our decision to make you know