Melanie Phillips
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Jun
Melanie Phillips’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then they came on like conquering heroes in the Second World War and said, we won it.
And our boys and girls were dying.
And they couldn't care less.
Because, exactly as you're saying, there is this isolationist tendency.
It's always been in America.
It's so enormous.
They think they're invulnerable.
They think they're a world entire unto themselves.
You can kind of understand it.
And it's only when something really cataclysmic happens to them, Pearl Harbor.
Without Pearl Harbor, they wouldn't have got involved at all.
Europe would have been left alone.
to the tender mercies of 9-11.
They woke up and then they went back to sleep again because of the apparent disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Iraq war.
So you can understand why they retreated.
But since then, you know, any responsible president would have...
told them, you know, if you're going to war, it's no small thing, to put it mildly, and you have to prepare your people.
You have to take your people with you.
You have to tell them why this is America's war.
Because Iran declared war on America in 1979 and has waged war ever since.
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