Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: Iran War Long View Will Show An Empowered West and Weakened Adversaries
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | That's what a war does. |
| 0:02.0 | I had two sons, now I've got one. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, I'm Brian Cranston and I play Joe Cumber. |
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| 0:24.6 | Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal. |
| 0:44.0 | I think we should take another look at the Iranian war, and I would call it a longer view, |
| 0:49.0 | not the short-term 24-hour news cycle. |
| 0:52.5 | What's happening right now is the media and the left wing of the United |
| 0:57.5 | States political, on the spectrum, the Democratic Party, and they are a nexus now aboard, |
| 1:03.8 | they react in 24-hour cycles. So anything that looks unfortunate from the point of the American success in Iran, they cling to. |
| 1:15.3 | So on last Monday, it looked like Donald Trump, after his tweet on Easter, that he was going to end the civilization of Iran. |
| 1:24.7 | And I mentioned before, he meant the regime, theocracy, the civilization of |
| 1:29.1 | radical Shia jihadism in Iran. They wanted to impeach him. They said he was a warmonger, |
| 1:37.0 | a hit larian figure. The next day, he announced that negotiations would take place, |
| 1:42.8 | and then he was a taco, a Neville Chamberlain, a George McGovern, a Jimmy Carter. |
| 1:46.7 | Trump always chickens out. |
| 1:48.8 | But it's indicative that they don't look at the war empirically. |
| 1:52.3 | They look at it entirely in political terms. |
| 1:55.7 | In fact, people as diverse as Tom Friedman or Bill Crystal, if you collate what they have written. |
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