Ruben Gallego

So we need to be very smart about when we attack and when we don't attack, when we let some things just slide away because, you know what, it's a distraction or it'll take us away from the base of orders that we need to do.

Sometimes you have to engage because there is an ethical reasons to engage, and I think war is one of them.

But in this instance—

this is the first time in quite a while that war of this nature is also extremely unpopular at first go.

If you, you know, for those that are old enough, um, I'm not sure you are, but, uh, you know, the Iraq and Afghanistan were actually very popular, uh, among, uh, you know, voters when they first kicked off Afghanistan, understandably so, but Iraq was, you know, still popular when we first kicked off, there was a lot of belief in, in the American public or the American government's, uh, assertion that, that, uh, you know, Iraq was a danger to us.

Um,

Right now, there is not even a real assertion by this administration that Iran is a direct threat to us.

They don't have the ICBM capabilities nearly enough to even hit our homeland, not for years to come.

Certainly don't have the capability to load on a nuclear weapon.

The nuclear weapon program was severely on the back foot.

And...

With, you know, true real diplomatic efforts, if we wanted to, I do feel that we could have had a solution that would have kept us out of this war.

But I think, you know, this was set in motion years and years ago when the president took the current president took us out of the Iran nuclear deal.

I think for two reasons.

I think number one, there's just generally an anti-establishment feeling across the country.

People that are just sick of both parties and, you know, we're one of those two parties.

Because we don't actually have a brand, and I know this sounds really dumb that I'm speaking in this way.

We don't actually have one person.

We don't have one brand ambassador.

Right.