I have good and bad days. My model's rush. I was thinking of him. He died about five years ago this month.

And he would text me almost every other night the last year or two, just about things in the news were something much more than the summer attack on the nuclear facilities,

because those were essentially completely military targets

with very few people around them. So there's all these, as Donald Lumsfeld said, these known unknowns.

We're all hopeful that it's not like Iraq. In other words, we're not going to go in the ground.

We're not going to go in there with the CIA and DOD and State Department people to tell them what to do. As I understand

Trump from his initial statements, you're going to take out the theocracy, take out their ability

to harm the U.S. or Arab allies in Israel. It's a very tricky thing. That's why no other president

would have done it. No, you can't negotiate with them because their whole currency is lying and their ideologue

or fanatic ideologues and they believe that they have a supernatural view of what's going

to happen and they're on the right side of cosmic divinity and all of these ideas.

So you can't negotiate.

I think their strategy to tell you was kind of a Mohammed Ali

rope-a-dope where they were going to ride it out and then Trump would be gone in

three years and people would be angry and you'd get a Joe Biden type of puppet of the left.

But better yet, you would get an AOC or a squad member or Newsome or Harris, and then you're home free to get the bomb because they would not do anything.

That was a strategy.

I think it would have worked, actually, if Trump had to let him off the hook. Well, hello ladies and hello gentlemen.

Welcome to Victor Davis Hanson, in his own words.

I am Jack Fowler, the man blessed to ask Victor Davis Hansen questions.

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