Trita Parsi

And you saw the DNC report that was going to be an autopsy of why they lost, and they didn't even mention the word Gaza in it.

So they're still afraid of touching this subject.

And that's going to be, again, part of the reason why I'm skeptical about their ability to be able to make the type of changes that are necessary, unless they have a complete overhaul of that leadership of that party.

Oh, absolutely.

I know it's...

You know, it's a self-protection mechanism.

And I guess we all do it.

Not to have to deal with the reality that they supported a genocide.

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

And then when you make it into a foreign policy doctrine,

In which we're going to run around and just lecture every other country and think that all they're yearning for in those countries is for us to come and save them and recreate them in our image.

I mean, this is highly, highly problematic.

And again, something I think the younger American demographic is not in line with at all.

recognizing that we have plenty of learn from everyone else and they have plenty to learn from us.

But you only learn it if it's two-way street and if it's voluntarily, no one is running around really thinking that their 5,000 year culture needs and some sort of Americanization and neoliberalism and McDonald's on every street corner.

You know, we have to be humble about these things.

They should go to the Quincy Institute's website, which is quincyinst.org.

We have also a foreign policy magazine online, responsiblestatecraft.com, or .org, sorry, that has really become one of the biggest.

It sure has.

And it's frequently cited even by mainstream media now.