Tommy Vietor

service members are hurt or killed or Americans abroad.

But there is already an enormous cost to the Iranian people.

Hundreds are probably dead or wounded already.

I mean, this story about the strike on a girl's school is horrific.

Iran is a country that was dealing with an economic crisis.

Tehran is a place where they're about to run out of water because of climate change and other mismanagement and other reasons.

So it's a population that has suffered enormously.

There was this massive crackdown on protesters a couple months back, which Trump is sort of cynically making part of his messaging about why he had to bomb them again.

Again, I'm sure there are some Iranians who are in the streets who hate the regime, who will be happy that the Supreme Leader has taken out and

just sort of hope for something better.

I just, my fear with all of this, having been through Iraq and Afghanistan and the Arab spring and just a lot of kind of turmoil is that the guys with the guns, uh, tend to end up on top.

And in this case, the guys with the guns aren't much better than, you know, the Ayatollah and the Supreme leader and the religious figures who have been in charge of Iran since, you know, 1979 or, you know, 89, I think in terms of, um, uh, common is tenure.

I know, I know.

Preemptive what?

Especially when we were told the nuclear infrastructure was, quote unquote, totally and completely obliterated in June of last year.

The president of the United States said that.

It's just like, come on, guys.

Just be a little more credulous of anything this guy says or that Netanyahu says.

All right.

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