Jon Stewart
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America seems to forget that enshrined in our constitution is this idea that people would like to be in charge of their own governments, the taxation without representation.
I won't get into the whole thing.
You may have read about it years ago.
Indeed, I have.
Indeed, I have.
But this idea that we can say to Iranians, your government is terrible and you're suffering.
And they clearly are.
And they clearly hate them.
And so we're going to make the decision.
as we did in Iraq, and now that you'll be better off.
And that's the arrogance that I'm talking about.
China does it a different way.
They say, I'm going to influence you through infrastructure, or I'm going to flood your markets with cheap goods.
But it's certainly different than how the West does it.
It's almost sexual for him.
It almost feels as though it's erotic.
Oh, you got to watch him.
You got to watch him more.
There's a reveling in it.
That's stunning.