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ltlee1@hotmail.com (ltlee1) wrote:
> From WSJ:
> ----------------------------------------------
> Iraq’s Shadow Over the Iran Debate
> Peggy Noonan
> June 19, 2025 6:13 pm ET
>
> The fiery Tucker Carlson interview with Sen. Ted Cruz is the perfect
> distillation of the split among conservatives on Iran. And that split is
> all about the unhealed wound of Iraq.
> ..
> Everything harked back to the Iraq war. Two parts said it all. The first
> has been all over social media:
>
> Mr. Carlson: “How many people live in Iran, by the way?
> Mr. Cruz: “I don’t know the population.”
> Mr. Carlson: “At all?”
> Mr. Cruz: “No, I don’t know the population.”
> Mr. Carlson: “You don’t know the population of the country you seek to
> topple? . . . How could you not know that?”
> Mr. Cruz: “I don’t sit around memorizing population tables.”
> Mr. Carlson: “Well it’s kind of relevant because you’re calling for the
> overthrow of the government.”
>
> Mr. Carlson challenged Mr. Cruz on the ethnic mix of Iran. Mr. Cruz
> seemed uncertain. Mr. Carlson: “You don’t know anything about Iran.”
>
> The second part hasn’t been so noticed.
> Mr. Carlson noted Mr. Cruz supports “regime change.” “What does regime
> change look like in Iran?
> Mr. Cruz: “Somebody else in charge.”
> Mr. Carlson: “How do you get there?”
> Mr. Cruz: “Look, that ultimately has to be a popular uprising from the
> people.”
>
> Mr. Cruz, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was glib, as is
> his way, and didn’t seem to have thought things through. Mr. Carlson was
> hectoring and inconsistent. But it was all about Iraq.
> ..

What does not kill you makes you stronger.
Any idiot chief can _start_ a war.
Case Putin v. Ukraine is also worth to remember.

-- 
A. Filip
| A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the
| conditions that make it fail.  (Jerry Ogdin)