Tom Nichols
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
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Don, can I add something to this?
yeah of course i just wanted to say that you know if part of the um idea behind this war and just the push for war with iran forever has been to put in a more um like uh western friendly uh government in iran to take out this this regime that is you know hostile to the united states and to israel um
The US has not done itself any favors in winning hearts and minds over there.
And that really does matter.
I mean, when you go in, and on the very first day of the war, you bomb a school.
You kill over 150 children.
You then have your Secretary of War coming out and boasting about the fact that we don't follow the rules anymore, boasting about the fact that we are vicious and lethal and untied.
I mean, of course, there are, in fact, lots of people in Iran who want to topple this regime.
And some of them even wanted US intervention.
And I have to say, I don't think that what those people wanted was what Pete Hegseth is up there talking about and what
and what the united states has delivered so if the goal is to you know um take out this regime and install one that we can be friends with well i i just don't know why you're up there talking like that and carrying out the war in this way and just the truly the most you know um vicious nasty just horrific way possible
you're you're up there you're up there talking about a reason every cabinet member talks like this because you are trying not to get fired you are trying to keep your job and one of the things that really strikes me is you know to go back this point about regime change and liberating people of iran if you were somebody who was you know kind of in hiding waiting for liberation day to come um and you're watching pete hegg said
you have to be kind of worried about how serious the United States really is because
Now, you can see this sliding set of rationales.
Now, you know, Hegseth says, our goal, Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.
Done.
Well, wait a minute.
What happened to regime change, terrorism, you know, peace in the Middle East, all of those other things?
And that seems to be gone.
And then the president says, well, I'm making deals.
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