Rich Lowry
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Jul
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We're in this situation because, as you say, we have a...
desire to stay alive and see our fellow citizens stay alive.
And the regime does not.
Now, I don't think he would have been able to build a coalition in the way that George W. Bush did after 9-11.
But if Trump had made the case...
and over a sustained period of time said what he now says.
Look, this has been a thorn in our side for 46 years.
They've killed a lot of our servicemen.
They are built atop an ideology that hates us.
His slogan is death to America.
They are building nuclear weapons.
And once they have those nuclear weapons, then they will become like North Korea, essentially immune from our influence.
We have to do something about this.
If he had built that case, told people it would cost American lives, told people that it would lead to increased gas prices, and told people that there was a risk of trouble in the Straits of Hormuz,
And I think we probably have had a better plan for the Strait of Hormuz if he had done this as a result, as Rich points out.
We might be looking at a different calculation.
At that point, the escalation you're describing is baked in.
Because again, it's not for a lack of technical ability.
We could...
open the Strait of Hormuz.
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