Scott Horton

It's sick, man.

Yeah, in the Obama years, Samantha Power about Libya, or maybe after the Obama years, was asked, well, man, you destroyed Libya.

Great going, lady.

And she goes, well, look, it's not our fault that we didn't have a crystal ball to see what was going to happen.

It's like, yeah, it is your fault that you launched an aggressive war against

without a crystal ball to know what would happen.

And so, yeah.

And that I did on the Philip Drew show, the weekend interview show back, it was April 12th, 2003, three days after they pulled down the statue of Saddam in Baghdad.

And I interviewed Alan Bach about it.

And he said, you know, he quoted Albus Huxley.

And the quote was that violent and destructive means determine violent and destructive ends.

Such a great quote.

You know, you should not be surprised.

And I have to admit, too, to you, dude, like, as silly as this is, at the start of this thing, and, you know, not like I ever uttered the wrong thing out loud about it or whatever, but there's a part of me that does think that, like, wow, I wonder if this is the one that will work out.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Zero here.

All these wars have been total catastrophes, and people are always going, what would it take for you to admit, like, we have a way better circumstance in the post-Ayatollah regime in Iran, dude, and whatever.

Like, well, we sure ain't to that better circumstance yet, but...

part of me has to wonder like geez maybe this is the one and then no of course not they go into the first thing they do is bomb a school full of little kids the second thing they do is go ah geez i guess ayatollah's son is the new ayatollah and then i gotta wedge this one in here somewhere and people double check me on this i beg you to go read the wall street journal and you'll have to click four or five different ones to see because sometimes they're more just