Steve Yates
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1,090 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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That has been a big vulnerability in the past.
And, of course, it has the ability to strike hard, and the president has proven a willingness to do that not very long ago.
So this should increase the chances of a negotiated settlement.
But I have to say, bottom line, I don't see this regime in Iran negotiating a good faith in an appropriate amount of time.
So I think the odds of a strike that would be an active war but not a total war, very high over the next two weeks.
Well, I completely agree that it's necessary.
We've fought off the ghosts of Iraq in many, many different ways.
But that idea of making it clear what the strategic objective is and what America's role is relative to other countries' role, very, very clear.
I think that the targets that they would hit would look more military, so it would be nuclear, but also some of the ballistic missile and other capabilities to demonstrate that we can do this and there's nothing they can do about it and knock them back a little bit to maybe buy more time and see whether they sober up for real negotiations.
There's
I think this added layer of statements that were made about the atrocities that are committed by the regime, the human rights violations, and I have deep sympathy for that, but I don't think that is the proper use of the U.S.
military.
I think that's...
the area that has to be made much, much more clear.
The strike had to be degrading the capabilities of the regime while they have maximum pressure to degrade the economic capabilities of the regime.
And the rest of the world is going to have to step in and help handle some of the other elements of the political transformation, in my view.
Buck, that is the most important issue that they have to work through.
And I don't take it as a given that whatever the U.S.
does in the near term is going to be about regime change.
I think what they demonstrated in Venezuela...
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