00:00Robbie, is Israel, not the U.S., the driving force here?
00:04I mean, we've got the president of the U.S. saying that they acted because Israel was going to be
00:10struck
00:11and now the U.S. is going to have a role in picking the new leader.
00:17How is that making America greater?
00:20Right, and I would define regime change as having their entire system of government replaced with one we want.
00:27That's what we did in Iraq, right?
00:29They had a dictator that was replaced by what we wanted, some form of democratic governance.
00:35We had the political party of the dictator run out of office.
00:40Just having a different Islamic extremist source of authority come to power in Iran,
00:47literally a different person, would not be regime change.
00:51That we could do.
00:52That we could do in terms of the kind of negotiations Donald Trump is having with them.
00:56But we're not like the kind of loftier, like we want the people to rise up and maybe the Kurds
01:02should be involved
01:03and maybe this will happen and that will happen.
01:05There's just, it is unrealistic.
01:07No matter the amount of air support we can supply for that to take place.
01:13And it's, you know, when I listen to Pete Hegseth and others talking about,
01:16yes, our military power is awesome, Israel's military power is awesome, we can blow up all their ships,
01:22we have them, their security systems hacked, we being Israel, in a very precise and specific way.
01:29We can kill everyone from the Ayatollah to the janitor.
01:32We can do this with great ease.
01:35But I don't see the argument that any of that is going to translate to having the entire government replaced
01:42with a system of governance that we want without boots on the ground there.
01:48And while I appreciate the relationship with Israel, I'm certainly far less anti-Israel
01:54than various factions of the right are currently.
01:56I do feel, I don't think our foreign policy should be decided by Israel without the input of our Congress.
02:06Right now that feels like the Israeli government is the more relevant decision maker
02:10for whether we get involved in conflict with Iran than our own Congress.
02:14And that is inappropriate based on our system of constitutional governance for us to say,
02:18well, we are obligated to be involved because Israel has decided to do this.
02:22Now, of course, Trump denies that Israel was the decision maker here.
02:25He says, no, no, no, I made the decisions.
02:27But there are some people in MAGA who are not believing it.
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