Biden's Choices on Iran

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🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Today's podcast worries over Joe Biden's next steps relating to Iran and its proxies attacking Americans in the Middle East and the temptation to do just a little bit and not a lot to respond, which will only make things worse. It's even more puzzling given how vulnerable Biden is in an election year against Donald Trump on this issue because Trump can favorably contrast his record on Iran with Biden's in a way Biden will be hard-pressed to counter. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:07.0	the worst.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some drink champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Monday, January 29th,
0:29.4	2024. I am John Podhoritz, the editor of Commentary magazine.
0:33.4	With me as always executive editor, Abe Greenwald,
0:35.7	Hi Abe.
0:36.7	Hi, John.
0:37.7	Washington Commentary columnist Matthew Cottonetti.
0:40.1	Hi Matt.
0:41.2	Hi, John.
0:41.8	And media commentary columnist Christine Rosen hi Christine.
0:45.0	Hi Christine. In what is actually the 56 or 57th such attack on American forces since the hostilities broke out on October 7th between Israel and Hamas,
1:01.4	a drone attacked Americans, American troops in Jordan.
1:07.0	The top line numbers, the three were killed, but in fact 30 to 40 were injured.
1:12.8	We don't know the extent of their injuries.
1:15.2	So this was, in fact, a 40 casualty event.
1:19.7	We had two Navy SEALs killed, to board a vessel a couple of weeks ago. We are in some kind of a sustained
1:32.2	military conflict with Iran and its proxies and have been now for several months and the
1:39.2	wheels are coming off the Biden administration's jalapi-like effort to pretend that Iran is not engaging
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