Is President Trump's Iran's strategy?

Strategy or just chaos?

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I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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Okay, so we begin today with the latest on the tension with Iran.

So before we get to the actual latest on the tension with Iran, there's a really great piece by Michael Doran, who's a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, and he goes through what exactly Iran is trying to do here.

And it's necessary to understand what Iran is trying to do and what the United States is trying to accomplish to determine what the strategy should be with regard to Iran.

Now, listen, the backdrop here is that nobody really knows in foreign policy.

It's not a machine.

Nobody knows in foreign policy what can happen given any circumstance.

Foreign policy is simply too unpredictable.

There are, however, tried and true strategies when it comes to things like deterrents.

If you're trying to deter somebody's action, they have to know that you are committed to taking a very harsh step should they violate a line,

right? This is why President Obama violating his own red line in Syria was so devastating.

It's why when President Obama said to Syria, use chemical weapons and that'll violate our red line,

and then him backing off the red line, it undermined his credibility,

and it led to tremendous suffering across the Middle East and across the world. It's one of the

reasons why a lot of America's enemies got more ambitious and more aggressive in the face of

President Obama. In other words, the talk softly and carry a big stick methodology of

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