Discussion on Trump's Iran Strategy

where Donald Trump decided to attack Iran.

What did you feel about that given that it ended so apparently quickly?

Do you think Trump was vindicated in his short sharp strategy there

by bombing Iran or do you think that this will come back and haunt him down the line?

Well of course I can't say.

I mean my life is a kind of unbroken chain

of bad predictions and embarrassing analysis and I've been wrong so many times

and I will be in the future without question.

However it's just a fact that you know events have consequences

that we can't foresee often for years or generations and

I think it's very unwise to use military force without a clear achievable objective

that serves the American national interest.

In fact it's not allowed to use it under any other circumstances

and in that case I was concerned and remain concerned

that this focus on Iran is not actually connected to our national security.

How many Shiite terror attacks have there been in the United States in my lifetime?

Let me do the math.

Zero.

So don't tell me that the greatest threat we face is Iran.

That's a lie.

You're telling it on behalf of a foreign power.

Maybe they feel the greatest threat they face is Iran.

It's not the greatest threat we face.

It's not an endorsement of Iran. Okay?

Doesn't make me a simp for the Shiites.

It just makes me an American who's trying to think clearly

about what our problems are and our problems would include tens of millions of foreign nationals living illegally in my country.

Nobody knows their identities.

They would include a collapsing economy that makes it very hard for my

children to have children and live the life that they grew up with and their friends and all American kids.

It would include a drug crisis that's killed millions of Americans

over the past 20, millions of Americans over the last 20 years.

Iran is not even on the top 10 list.

So you can scream at me all you want and call me names and call me a bigot or whatever,

but I just, there's no evidence to support that.

And so if the energy of the U.S. government is focused on a threat that's not the primary threat to us,

it is by definition ignoring threats that are. And that's a kind of negligence.

And so I pointed that out.

I was, you know, roundly attacked. My

family was attacked.

Whatever. I don't care. It's true.

And everyone kind of knows it's true.

And being bullied by Ben Shapiro into pretending that it's not true,

it's just not on the program for me at 56.

I'm just not doing that anymore.