Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They don't care that Israel motivated September 11th and killed 3,000 of our guys.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
You know, I was at the airport yesterday, had a big American flag with all the red and white stripes made out of the names of the dead of September 11th, who were killed by people motivated by Israel's crimes in Palestine and in Lebanon and enforcing Bill Clinton's dual containment policy from Saudi Arabia.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They don't care about that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They don't care about the 4,500 Americans who died in Iraq War II or
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
or the million-something people who died in Iraq War II, the half a million in Syria, as long as the Shiite crescent somehow is limited.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They'll even celebrate openly.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
I don't know about him, but I know Ben Shapiro and many other leaders of the Israel lobby in America celebrated the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria by Abu Muhammad al-Jalani.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, in Syria.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Why?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Because he's not a Shiite.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
He's not an Alawite.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Friends with the Shiites and friends with Iran and friends with Hezbollah.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And so that's good for Israel, even though it's the worst thing that you could possibly imagine for the people of the United States of America.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Those sworn loyal to Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, ruling Damascus now, their own ISIS caliphate in our era.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And this is why they always pretend.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They go, oh, you know, over there, the Muslims, the terrorists, greatest state sponsors of terrorism.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
It's Al-Qaeda that threatens the United States of America.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
It wasn't Hezbollah that knocked those towers down.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And they have us siding with our enemies against their enemies.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And as you just said, well, I guess time will tell, Lex, whether we're going to have to drop the 82nd Airborne in there, whether Americans are going to have to do a regime change in Tehran.