Kurt Mills
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686 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 11 Jul
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Because, I mean, the U.S.
will then be responsible for the transition.
And I think the U.S.
will have to handle the transition.
The Israelis won't.
Yeah, Pottery Barn rule, right?
I mean, Colin Powell was right about this.
I mean, I think Colin Powell should have resigned for the Bush administration rather than advocate for a war he didn't believe in.
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.
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