This is the Tom Hartman Program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

By Trump making a strategic decision, thinking that it was a tactical decision, he handed to Iran, essentially

the right to decide what happens next.

So Trump is back in Washington, D.C.

Probably not spending a whole lot of time

in the upper floors of the White House, rather nervous about what Iran might do.

We've got military bases around the world that are quite nervous about what might happen.

The threat level, the alert level has been raised all over the world.

You know, Mike Pompeo is trying to tell us that the world is safer now.

The world is not safer now.

America is not safer now. That's just crazy. And something

is going to happen. The Iranians are going to respond.

They've made it clear, we've made it clear, is self-evident, I suppose.

But what most people are not thinking about right now,

and I think we need to really be thinking about it and perhaps

we need to have a discussion about it

is the fact that when the Iranians respond, there will be an element of American society, also known

as the Republican Party and the Trumpistas, or the Trumpettes, or the magggots or whatever you want to call them, who

will immediately use that response as an excuse to beat the drums of war.

So whether the Iranians respond by, you know, throwing missiles into a U.S. military

base in Iraq and killing some of our soldiers, or whether they blow up an embassy someplace

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