Just after he said this:
"I think if you have to hit Iran, you don't put boots on the ground. You do it with tactical nuclear devices, and you set them back a decade or two or three...I think that's the way to do it -- with a massive aerial bombardment campaign."
...actual elected representative, Duncan Hunter (R-CA), said this:
"You've got some crazy guys running the governments there."
And somehow the intrepid reporter was able to get this all written down without becoming overcome with the urge to curl up into a weeping ball of despair. Soldier on, brave Caitlin MacNeal.
It would be nice if our elected leaders could put themselves in the Iranian leaders’ shoes and look at US policy toward Iran and the Middle East in general in the post-Shah era through that lens. Isn’t developing nukes almost a no-brainer?
But nooooooooooooo, they’re the crazy ones.
self-reflection and empathy are for socialists and America-haters.