It's Monday, March 2nd, 2026 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

And the big Satan and little Satan got together to be the big and little assassin.

Delivered to the Ayatola, the second Ayatollah, the first one coined that big Satan, little Satan thing, but

Khameney certainly ran with it until it ran him into the ground. You will not be missed.

Now, the fact that a bad man is gone is not ipso facto justification for this war. Was this war wise,

prudent, legal, and in the best interests of the United States?

You know, the answers might be something like, maybe, maybe no and yes.

This could be, and I am not among the knee-jerk who immediately say Donald Trump's doing it,

therefore it's wrong, or we could never win a war from the air

in this part of the world. I'm just not knee-jerk anything. And I also know that history doesn't

stop and start with Iraq. So most of my show, I'm going to give over to an interview with

Eli Lake of the free press, who's been covering all this and there was a lot about this and we'll talk

about differences between Iraq and Iran. But here is one big difference that I wanted to get to.

So Senator Chris Murphy was making this point on the Sunday shows. This was on Face the Nation

about the near impossibility and he posits it as the impossibility of trying to achieve what this war is trying to

achieve, which is functional regime change and a functioning country in the wake of a bombing

campaign. Here's Senator Murphy. There is no history. There is no experience that shows

an air campaign alone will result in positive regime change.

In fact, there's not a single example of it in the entirety of American history.

An air campaign without at least the threat of a ground invasion, which the administration is ruling out,

never results in a democratic rebirth in an authoritarian country.

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