Iran, Mexico & the Border Crisis: How to Be Strong Without Endless Wars | 03/02/26

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The world is exploding — Iran, Mexican cartels, border security, China infiltration — and Americans are asking one critical question: How do we defend our country WITHOUT repeating the disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan? This is a legitimate question to ask, and we thread the needle today with my friend Ammon Blair of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Blair, a former Border Patrol agent and Iraq War veteran, takes us through the strategic plays of the Trump administration in Iran and the Caribbean, while also raising concerns about the shortsightedness of administration policies dealing with the Mexican cartels and prematurely declaring the border secure. America must project strength — but with discipline, clarity, and strategy. What does that balance look like? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Politics without the soap opera with unfiltered constitutional conservative truth.
0:06.2	The Conservative Review with Daniel Burns.
0:09.2	And welcome back fellow American patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew for the issues that matter.
0:16.3	Today on this brand new week, brand new month, and boy, is the world exploding as we begin this
0:22.5	Monday at Blaze Media, your host, Daniel Hurwitz, back here today. Make sure you like and
0:27.2	subscribe at Horowitz show on YouTube, conservative review podcast on iTunes, and of course, our
0:34.8	substack, liberating truths. Now, it is quite liberating at a time like this when you are an independent conservative,
0:43.7	you're not tethered to any one figure or party.
0:46.3	So we could call it like it is because we're on Team America.
0:49.2	We want us to succeed domestically.
0:53.5	We want our people to succeed culturally, financially, economically,
0:58.4	and obviously in terms of security as well. So I have no problem hitting the president one day,
1:05.9	praising him the next day, agreeing on one thing, not agreeing on the other thing, even within
1:10.0	the same show, because
1:10.9	ultimately it's not about balls and strikes. It's about doing the right thing. So, you know,
1:17.3	we have Iran going on. We have Venezuela. We have Mexico. We have our own border. We have our own
1:24.0	Islamic terrorism inside of our country. How do we put this all together?
1:34.1	How do we not repeat the same mistakes of the global war on terror often called it?
1:44.3	GWAT, where we got sucked in very little ROI or even negative ROI for the billions and trillions spent and the thousands of lives cost.
1:53.9	How do we secure our prerogatives with our border, our own hemisphere, and whatever prerogatives we have and can define in the Middle East, keeping shipping lanes opened,
1:59.2	protecting bases that we should have.
2:01.9	But the question is, how many bases should we have there?
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