00:00Do you think it's fair to say the United States has been fairly restrained this time around?
00:05And if you'd agree with that statement, what do you think is behind that?
00:08Why the seeming restraint up until this point?
00:12I think they'll be warned, as the Americans were in 2002-03,
00:17about the potential consequences of not thinking through military action.
00:23Iran is a big state. It's an important state. It's a great civilization.
00:29The capacity for all sorts of untold consequences, instability, environmental catastrophe, strikes,
00:38if any action against Iran proved to have been misjudged, are very high.
00:45And anybody embarking on military operations has to think very long and hard about what you want to achieve by
00:53it
00:53and what the potential consequences could be.
00:56And the Americans, and a lot of us, I suppose, feel very fingers burned by the consequences of the invasion
01:02of Iraq in 2003.
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