Israel’s Conflict or US War?

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00:00Dan, we're hearing those words from President Trump.

00:04We have control of the airspace.

00:07We aren't going to take out the supreme leader yet.

00:11Is this Israel's conflict or is this the US's war?

00:17This is a conflict that unfortunately Israel was burdened in dealing with for the entire free world.

00:23And when I say free world, I mean many parts of the Middle East who have been under Iranian terror

00:28and subjugation since 1979.

00:33President Trump, of course, campaigned on a platform of ending US involvement in foreign wars,

00:40limiting US participation, and rightfully so after America went into Afghanistan,

00:47very correctly so, but it didn't go well.

00:50It was poorly managed, poorly planned.

00:52And in the end, America left and the Taliban came back in office.

00:56And, of course, the Iraq war in 2003, the reasons for it are under dispute to this day,

01:02whether it was smart or not.

01:04Certainly the execution of it didn't go well.

01:06Iraq is not a democracy today.

01:08So I get it that Americans are burned by the concept of regime change and bringing democracy to the world.

01:13And I do sympathize with that idea that Americans don't need to be playing regime kingmaker or matchmaker in the world.

01:20That said, nobody's talking about, right now, at least a regime change.

01:25Israel is certainly not talking about regime change.

01:28And if Israeli leaders are entertaining any kinds of those thoughts, I would caution them against it.

01:34That said, Iran has been very declaratively so the greatest enemy of Israel, of the West.

01:42It literally chants death to Israel, death to America as it parades them on intercontinental ballistic missiles through its streets.

01:50It has threatened in word and in practice.

01:52It backs virtually all of the proxies that attacked Israel on October 7th, 6th, October 7th, and for the past 30 years.

01:59And so Israel is really fighting this war, first and foremost for its own safety and security,

02:06but really for the stability, safety, and security of the region and of the free world.

02:12And there's a reason why virtually all of the region's powers are not rushing to condemn Israel in this,

02:18because almost every country now in the Middle East and most of the G7 and the European and Western powers

02:26are very happy to see a degraded Iran as far as its nuclear and ballistic missile program.

02:32And I don't think anybody would shed a tear to see this regime gone.