Josh Duhamel

Clinton, ditto.

George W. Bush fought the Iran hawks to his credit in his second term after making a mess of the world in the first term.

Obama signed a deal with the Iranians.

Biden, while probably more hawkish on Iran than Obama,

didn't say anything to the contrary.

And his relationship with Netanyahu helped undermine him with the Gaza protests.

So, I mean, if anything, it was Trump who was the first president to relent to Israeli pressure on Iran.

So I don't know what he's seeing there.

You know, secondarily, like, look, you know, pass us a prologue.

And Mr. Hansen's a nice man, but he was a vociferous champion of the Iraq war.

You know, he was he's the opposite of Pat Buchanan, the founder of our magazine.

And, you know, I think military military historians occasionally can lapse into becoming war fetishists.

And I think his strategic analysis is just wrong.

I think he knows a lot about World War Two and about ancient history.

and he gave you way more details about those battles than i can but his perspective his prescriptive analysis is atrocious i mean we would have done a lot better the last 25 years by just doing the opposite of what victor davis hansen wanted uh geopolitically

No, I mean, it's a stake in the heart of what Trump is supposed to be about.

And, you know, it's not as if he should advance the concerns exclusively of men under 45.

But no one can really deny that that was in a lot of ways his base and why he was reelected in 2024, why he did better than he did in 2020 and why he did better than he did in 2016.

And I think it belies sorry, it reveals how sort of radical the war contingent actually is.

It's basically older Americans, older conservatives who, again, supported a lot of these mistaken wars in the 2000s and in the past.