Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
If Ronald Reagan can sell a missiles a year or two years after that, three years after that, then surely the United States and the Ayatollah can bury the hatchet from that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And no one's ever even, I don't believe, ever really proven that Tehran ordered that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
It was a Shiite militia backed by Iran that sort of proto-Hezbollah that did that attack, that killed those Marines.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Right.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And if there's some responsibility for them, damn them.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Like if there's direct responsibility for that, not just their support for the group, then damn them for that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
But that's still no reason in the world to say that we can't get along with them now when that was in the same year Return of the Jedi came out.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
OK, and then the other one.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And this is always referred to.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
You'll see this on TV news today.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Anyone watching this turn on TV news and you'll hear them say Iran killed 600 Americans in Iraq War two.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
But that's a lie.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
there was a gigantic propaganda campaign by Dick Cheney and his co-conspirators, David Petraeus and Michael Gordon of the New York Times, now at the Wall Street Journal, where they lied and lied like the devil for about five, six months in early 2007, that every time a Shiite set off a roadside bomb, these new improved copper cord enhanced, they're called EFPs, explosively formed penetrators,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Now, anytime that happened, Iran did it, which is what George Bush called shorthanding it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Yeah.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
In other words, just implying the lie.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
What they're saying is Iran backed Muqtada al-Sadr and America attacked Muqtada al-Sadr, who actually they were fighting the whole war for him.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
He remains a powerful kingmaker in that country this day.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
He's part of the United Iraqi Alliance.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And in fact, as long as we're taking a long form here,