Kurt Mills

And I think that's on his record forever.

But Colin Powell's arguments internally cautioning against the Iraq war based on the Pottery Barn rule, if you break it, you buy it, which is why the first Bush administration, George H.W.

Bush, the father, say what you will, more responsible president than his son, didn't go all the way to Baghdad because they knew it would look like this.

And so I think, you know, stipulating that we can even do this with the military plan that we're considering, that we can even decapitate the regime, what do you replace it with?

And I mean, there's all these sort of goofy sort of proposals, principally anchored around the Reza Pahlavi person, the sort of...

playboy the mon the monarchist thing's a joke you know they had the 100 000 people he's the leading candidate and i like seriously i i don't mean to float this and i'm not rooting for this but if he goes to iran and he is murdered in like 10 days when he says i'm here i'm the king what is the u.s plan then the shah the shah okay hang over a second we're gonna drill down on this for a

Well, I think in that case, we should flag the people that are pretty relevant on this.

And so I would say the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which is renamed from basically a Israeli word or a Hebrew word, because it is basically not declared an Israeli PR shop.

And they are driving the push for war.

This is a group of people who were chock full, frankly, of never Trumpers, people who signed the never Trump letters, frankly, and people who did not support Trump's rise in the Republican Party in 2015, 2016, did not support him for election against Hillary Clinton.

And we're not particularly helpful in 2020, I would flag.

But they have been instrumental in writing a lot of Trump's Iran policy in term one.

And they are, I think, although they're not as represented in this administration, they are blowing the horn for war in term two.

But the journal's hard reporting is fine.

I think the editorial board exists for the humor of one man, Rupert Murdoch.

They're very similar to FDD in their flavor, but WSJ, the tone of it is more hawkish than my cup of tea.

Wall Street Journal's hard reporting on Iran is excellent.

I recommend reading it.

It's highly plugged in and it's highly accurate.

Sure.