Scott Horton

And I knew an old Marine back in the 1990s taught me that, listen, if your men are not standing on street corners,

with their combat boots on the ground holding rifles and you do not control that territory period that's who controls the territory whose soldiers can stand around there and that ain't ever going to be america in tehran and so

yeah again they they taught trump into somehow don't worry man they're just remember i'm sure you've heard netanyahu say this a thousand times they're just waiting for somebody to hit them and they'll just fall right over and all the people just rise up and it'll be great but like nah there's no real reason to believe dude there's a

But that is not the case of the population of the country.

It's just the same as here.

Out in the countryside or even in the suburbs, people vote right wing.

And, you know, I'll never forget in July 2005, George W. Bush warned the people of Iran, you better not vote for the right winger in the election tomorrow.

And then the next day they all voted for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

And that was where he came from.

And Bush helped him win.

And it was like widely agreed at the time that he got the Bush bump of five percent when he was, you know, when the people were warned.

And I guess he would have won anyway.

But it's like, yeah, out in the countryside, people are religious.

On the countryside, people are conservative.

On the countryside, people are patriotic.

Out in the countryside, no, they don't favor the North Americans and the fucking Israelis coming and bombing them to liberty.

Are you kidding me?

That is completely stupid.

Think how stupid you got to be to think that, oh, yeah, no, that actually could work.

And I'm pretty sure that that's what's going on here.