Trita Parsi

Not that I know of, but I don't think this episode is entirely over.

I think this first attempt by them probably backfired.

There was also a lot of public support that came out that was completely organic.

We had nothing to do with that.

That I think was potentially a factor in all of this.

I suspect that it was.

But as you said before, they're relentless.

And I am, and the work of Quincy is not designed to be against them.

It's designed to be in favor of a much better American foreign policy that actually serves US interests and serves the American people.

It doesn't serve the American people to be in these endless wars.

It doesn't serve the American people that so much of our involvement in the world is not even,

structured to be based on our interests, but is based on the interests of our allies.

I mean, if you take a look at it, any average think tank report in Washington, DC,

on the Middle East, if they even would bother to define what the US interest in the region is, and oftentimes they don't even do that.

But if they do, it would be a long list of things.

And at the end, it would be stand with our allies as if that is a core vital interest.

What does that mean?

That's a catch all variable that means whatever interest they have is now suddenly our interest because we have to stand by them.

This is part of the reason why we're at war all the time, because the bar for us to use military force, the bar for what is a vital interest, has just essentially been pushed down to the very ground.

Whatever some foreign politician wants.