From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

The Armstrong and Getty Show. The president has ordered additional retaliation but the White House won't say

when or where it will come. The goal here is to stop these relentless attacks on U.S. forces without starting and

sparking a wider war with Iran.

And while the president is confident that these attacks have been successful, that they are

degrading the militants's capabilities they are

still launching attacks on US forces no sign they're backing down yeah

yeah that last sentence kind of important they're still launching

attacks on US forces. And then more particularly there is no sign

they're backing down. None. Right and again so I ask this, and I am as armchair quarterback as you can get,

but how do we not have a plan in place ready to go instantly for if they don't back down.

I think it's just the nature of the Biden administration's foreign policy. It is... I think so too I think it's his personality

Yeah, it's it's halting it's timid it's absolutely convinced that everything can be solved in the UN or at Oslo or wherever.

The best thing I've heard on this so far and I'm standing by it until somebody way smarter

can explain to me how it's not true.

We need to reverse the situation where people are worried about us escalating instead of us worried

about them escalating.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm. What is the opposite of Real-politique? Unreal-politic, fantasy-politique, where the realities of human relations and warfare and conflict that have

established themselves over centuries are just ignored in favor of whatever they're

saying in the salons of the you know foggy bottom or wherever the State Department is I just it

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