Rabbi Walicki
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Yeah, so the polling initially conducted overnight on the strikes is overwhelmingly negative.
But most importantly, and most central to this show, it appears that a majority of Republicans don't know why we're doing this and or don't support it.
So look, I think it needs to be level set.
Tens of millions of Americans are happy that Donald Trump is the president.
I'm one of them.
I don't regret my vote for President Trump.
I don't think Kamala Harris would be doing this better.
But there is such a thing as motivation or opposition to the administration on discrete issues.
And a new war in the Middle East that looks a lot like the Iraq War, though it looks a lot like the same people making the arguments for the Iraq War,
and basically an argument that is mired in the past.
Respectfully to Chairman Kennedy or Brian Kennedy, who I like a lot and consider a friend, he's arguing about military exercises that occurred in the 90s.
A lot of people who voted for President Trump weren't alive when these military exercises occurred.
Yes, Iran is an adversary of the United States, but it was not an imminent threat.
threat at all.
It wasn't an imminent threat in January of 2025.
This is not something that President Trump needed to handle for the interest of the United States.
It's an Israeli objective.
And why it is an Israeli objective?
Because Israel wants to expand in the Middle East.
Fine, that's their prerogative, but they shouldn't ask the American taxpayer or Republicans to support it.