Norm Finkelstein

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333 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 Apr

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The national interest is there, in my opinion, for sure.

but his own ego looms as large and sometimes larger than the national interest.

So I think there's a very simple explanation.

You know, Oxfam's razor, the simplest explanation is often the right one.

We don't have to go to conspiracy theories.

We don't have to go to other explanations

the Adelson's and this and that.

I think the explanation based on Trump's conduct, his instincts, and in particular in the double sense, his impulses, um,

Explain what happened.

Let me just I just add one thing for the sake of your listeners, because I know, you know,

Not so long ago, we did try Iran.

The goal of the Cheney-Rumsfeld administration was Iraq, Syria, Iran.

There was a consensus among everybody in the Bush administration that Iran had to be dethroned.

There had to be, I hate that expression, but a regime change in Iran.

They just thought it would be the third step along the way.

But back then, there was a consensus in the Bush administration that we were going to go to war with Iran.

It was just not this moment.

We first want to weaken Iraq or overthrow Iraq and Syria.

So when you say previous administrations didn't try it, well, actually, they were

They were ready.

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