Ken Harbaugh
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Again, back to Sun Tzu and Know Your Enemy, I think we fundamentally misunderstand the zeal of the Iranian leadership.
And we have undermined the pro-democracy movement in that country.
We had a chance to help them months ago, but instead we waited.
Instead, we lied about bombing a girls' school.
I mean, everything we appear to be doing, we threaten to blow up civilian infrastructure like power plants, which is a war crime.
It's not a gray area.
It's a war crime.
And our government has called Putin's targeting of these kinds of
facilities in Ukraine a war crime.
And here our commander in chief is threatening to do the exact same thing.
I don't know how that is supposed to provoke the people of Iran to rise up, but it is having the exact opposite effect.
We are, if anything, entrenching the hardliners in power in Iran when they were at their weakest a few months ago.
No, it's worse than I thought it would be.
And I think it could get worse.
I really do.
Because every time we've thought we've arrived at a new low, he's been able to break through and dig deeper.
And my biggest fear, honestly, when you think about Trump as...
as a person who sees himself in historic terms and epical terms, what gets someone like him on Mount Rushmore?
You know he's thinking that kind of thing, right?
And I worry that in the back of his head, in those dark moments when those voices creep in, he's thinking nukes, right?