Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of Your Wrong with Molly Hemingway, editor-in-chief of the Federalist and David Harsani, senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Just as a reminder, if you'd like

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Molly, I think we have an important topic set up for today. We don't have to go looking for anything

to talk about.

War is on in the Middle East against Iran, the United States and Israel. What date did the bombing starts Saturday? I don't know. It was overnight for me between Friday and Saturday.

We've been talking about Iran and nukes my whole career. We've been talking about Iran and nukes my whole career.

We've been talking about the prospects of war there, my whole career, I would say.

Iran has been an enemy of the United States as long as I can remember, you know,

when as a kid in the Iranian hostage situation.

But I think it's worth mentioning that they also were behind in many ways, the bombing of the barracks in Beirut, which killed hundreds of American soldiers, the Kobar Tower bombings with the, which the Iranian Revolutionary, which the Islamic Revolutionary Guard participated in planning, probably.

And numerous other kidnappings and hostage taking.

And they have been, whatever you think about war, there is no denying, I think, that they

have been an enemy of the United States for 47 years.

Were you surprised we did this?

What was your reaction?

It's kind of funny because in addition to everything you say, we had been watching a massive buildup in the

region of all of our military assets. So there's no way that you could say you were surprised

by the action that took place. And yet I was still somewhat surprised. I had, I'll just say I thought I understood Trump's approach to foreign policy

on not engaging in a full-fledged war to achieve objectives.

And so I erroneously thought that the buildup was more a threat to get Iran to make concessions that might be supported by a much less fully engaged war operation than the one that we're seeing. Does that make sense?

Yeah, probably. Well, for me, it's a little different to surprise. The surprise for me was that

we've talked about this forever and we never actually follow through. Iranian regime will go and

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