Why did you launch this operation now?

Why did you launch this operation now?

Because we were facing an imminent threat, a dual existential threat.

One, the threat of Iran rushing to weaponize their enriched uranium to make atomic bombs

with a specific and declared intent to destroy us.

Second, a rush to increase their ballistic missile arsenal into the capacity that they would have 3,600 weapons a year, new weapons.

Within three years, 10,000 ballistic missiles, each one weighing a ton, coming in and Mach 6, right into our cities,

as you saw today. And then in 26 years, 20,000, that's in no country can sustain that,

and certainly not a country the size of Israel. So we had to act. It was the 12th hour. We did act,

to save ourselves, but also, I think, to not only

protect ourselves, but protect the world from this incendiary regime. We can't have the world's

most dangerous regime, have the world's most dangerous weapons. We're protecting ourselves,

but by doing so, we're protecting many others.

Now, we have significant military assets in the region.

We have significant military assets in every region.

So the isolationists, who are appeasers, who will get us all killed,

they believe we should just pull back from everywhere.

NATO, Europe, Africa, Middle East.

What are we doing there?

We're protecting ourselves. That's what we're doing there.

They're forward bases. We have allies, like Israel, who are fighting wars that really help us too.

With a base in Qatar, Israel didn't put it there. We've a base in Iraq.

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