Robbie Bernstein
speaker
6,205 appearances
61 recordings
4 series
first heard Aug 2022
last heard 3d ago
Robbie Bernstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And more often than not, when a government policy fails, it's because they got it wrong and they did not pay attention to the people that were calling out the unintended consequences.
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And you guys pitched this war, you supported this war with the variables that Donald Trump was running the war.
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That was the risk assessment.
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If you had said, hey, we would love an Iran war, but we don't think Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump is smart enough to pull it off, and so we don't want to do with this administration, then you could not own this war and turn around and go, We didn't support this war because we think Trump is bad.
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That's not what you guys said.
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All of the variables were on the table.
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is you got it wrong.
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This is actually the war that you wanted.
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Yeah.
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You just don't like the results.
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And uh
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I th this is why this is so disingenuous.
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So you go back to the initial strike on Iran, and what was the what was the argument between the uh non-interventionalists and the Warhawks is you're gonna end up with a quagmire.
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And they were trying to go, No, there won't be a quagmire, we can just do targeted strikes, then they start a war and they go, We can do a quick war, we can win this thing easily.
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And then what does it turn out?
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We can't, and we're right back to what we've been complaining about Iraq and Afghanistan, that you've started some new
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New ongoing thing that's gonna cost us a ton of money and won't actually get you anywhere.
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And these were the people who were trying to pitch you on the idea of no, we can engage in warfare and we can win it, and it doesn't have to be a big old mess.
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And then you end up six months later where it's a big old mess, and they go, Well, that's not what we wanted.
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