Ro Khanna
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So what is the goal here?
The goal, as I understand it, is to banish
diminish Iran's power, just to teach them a lesson.
But is that goal worth having Americans die for?
Is that worth having billions of dollars go to another Middle East war?
And is it really gonna leave the Iranian people with a better future?
The history of Iraq and Libya and Afghanistan teaches us to have humility.
Well, my follow-up question to Secretary Rubio would be, well, then why didn't we tell Israel to stop?
I mean, if they have a view that Israel was going to launch an attack on Iran and Iran is going to retaliate against American troops,
Is the answer to that, well, let's risk American troops and have six service members killed in billions of dollars?
Or is the answer to that to say, Israel, you can't do this, not if you're going to put our troops at risk, not after we've given you billions and billions of dollars.
I didn't vote for it, but we've given them billions of dollars.
Like who's calling the shots around here?
And it's mind boggling to me that they, I guess it's one thing that they're being honest, but you're basically saying that Netanyahu has pushed them into this war that he's wanted for 30 years.
Well, they're happy that he's gone.
I'm happy that he's not alive.
I mean, who would not be happy that KaminΓ© met a fate?
I mean, he was responsible for the blood of both Americans and Israelis and his own people.
He was a horrible person.
But the question is...