Miles Taylor
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963 appearances
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 18 Feb
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He wants the power, but not the optic of soldiers dying.
But here's the dilemma.
You try to go do something like this and just have it be airstrikes and you lose control of the situation.
And pretty soon you're forced to put troops in on the ground.
And that is the folly of them engaging in this sort of saber rattling.
And the last thing I'll say is this was our worry in the first Trump administration.
Any time Donald Trump engaged in bellicose rhetoric with an adversary, when he was threatening Kim Jong-un with fire and fury,
The Secretary of Defense told me in person outside the Situation Room, Miles, the Department of Homeland Security should be prepared to get embroiled in a nuclear war.
We were so worried by the president's rhetoric, his team thought he was so unstable, that we had to go prepare for the possibility of a nuclear strike on the U.S.
homeland because the president couldn't keep his tweets in his pants.
That's a problem.
Well, look, Donald Trump has used the predicate of widespread protests in Iran as a reason to interfere.
Now, the past few months, there have been historic protests in that country.
People are frustrated with the price of goods.
People are frustrated with the repression from the regime.
People are angry and restless in Iran.
They have taken to the streets.
And of course, like any autocracy does, what has the regime done?
They've cracked down on the protesters.
They've jailed them.
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