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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kuner Report

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Speaker 1: Weekend edition w RKO, The Voice of Boston.

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Speaker 2: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight

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Speaker 2: is the number. Just an exclamation point. I want to

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Speaker 2: go to the phone lines. But this is from Larry

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Speaker 2: on Messenger and I think, you know it's it's such

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Speaker 2: a simple point, but it's so true and so penetrating.

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Speaker 2: And it goes to the Hamini, you know, the late

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Speaker 2: Supreme leader, and how this really this is his war.

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Speaker 2: He's the one that made mistake, I mean fatal mistake

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Speaker 2: after fatal mistake after fatal mistake. And now they're on

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Speaker 2: the verge of losing everything, I mean the whole the

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Speaker 2: whole regime, the whole Islamic Republic now because they just

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Speaker 2: squandered it, they just squandered everything. Well and now even

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Speaker 2: as they're going down, Just to think about how irrational

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Speaker 2: they are, Jeff, can you imagine the thought process of

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Speaker 2: turning the other Arab countries against Israel and the United

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Speaker 2: States by bombing those same countries, like with three question marks?

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Speaker 2: Like think of the level of the mind, how primitive

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Speaker 2: Israel and the United States are bombing us so what's

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Speaker 2: our response? Bomb Saudi Arabia bomb, United Arab Emirates bomb, quake,

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Speaker 2: Bombahrain really bomb, Turkey bomb, bombing, Rock bomb, bomb, Lebanon bomb,

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Speaker 2: Syria bomb, you know, bomb everybody. I mean, they are

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Speaker 2: attacking Israel a little bit. What I'm saying is, so

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Speaker 2: I bomb all these other countries are neighbors. Oh that's

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Speaker 2: that's really gonna show them. That's really all boy. I mean, guys,

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Speaker 2: this is brilliant. Who thought of that one? I mean

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Speaker 2: you you can't make this up. You literally can't make

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Speaker 2: this up. They're going down, and they're going down hard.

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Speaker 2: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight

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Speaker 2: is the number. Dan in North Andover. Thanks for holding Dan,

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Speaker 2: and welcome.

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Speaker 3: Dan's no longer in North Andover.

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Speaker 2: He's now in Arlington. Dan in Arlington, go ahead, my friend.

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Speaker 3: Man, oh man, hey, my brother from another mother. I'm

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Speaker 3: a little angry with you the beginning of the week

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Speaker 3: because I honestly think that this started jeff In on

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Speaker 3: January thirty first, nineteen seventy nine, and I'll never forget this.

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Speaker 3: I was sitting on my grandmother's her house in Belricka, Massachusetts,

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Speaker 3: on our living room floor with a big old green

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Speaker 3: shag carpeting and watching a big old wooden box TV

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Speaker 3: and watching the Ayatola get on a plane in Paris,

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Speaker 3: on a seven forty seven to fly out of Paris,

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Speaker 3: And I've said to her. I remember turning to her

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Speaker 3: and I said, that's a bad man. Why are we

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Speaker 3: not shooting down that plane? Not if if a fourteen

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Speaker 3: year old kid, you know, literally a high school freshman

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Speaker 3: from a mediocre high school could think of that, what

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Speaker 3: what the hell were we doing as a government, you know,

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Speaker 3: just and you know, we had the chance. Reagan could

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Speaker 3: have taken him out for what he did in the

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Speaker 3: for what he did, taken the hostages, he could have

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Speaker 3: he could have taken out a Ran at that point,

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Speaker 3: were way way stronger than them. At that point, they weren't.

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Speaker 3: They weren't building up their military like they've done for

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Speaker 3: the last fifty years. They if we could have taken

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Speaker 3: them out after the after the coal we could have

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Speaker 3: taken them out after the Omi barracks and and Lebanon.

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Speaker 3: All of those opportunities to take them out, and we

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Speaker 3: never took it. So I think I think we've got

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Speaker 3: to finish this as much as as much as I

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Speaker 3: hate to see somebody, you know, I hate to see

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Speaker 3: us have to go into a war, we've got to

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Speaker 3: take him out. We've got to finish it. And I

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Speaker 3: think they've got to dig real deep to take out.

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Speaker 2: All of the all of the.

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Speaker 3: True fanatics, because you know, you know, when I look

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Speaker 3: at what we did in Libya and taken out Kadafi

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Speaker 3: with you know, he was he was unifying, but he

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Speaker 3: was he was friendly to us, and we took him out.

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Speaker 3: You know, he was a punk in the eighties, but

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Speaker 3: he grew up.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you mentioned Libya. Look, and that that's the fear, right,

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Speaker 2: the fear is when you have a regime change like

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Speaker 2: we did in Libya, what happened, well, what came after

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Speaker 2: was worse. The country was destabilized, there was anarchy everywhere, chaos,

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Speaker 2: civil war, and basically al Qaeda took over half the country.

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Speaker 2: So it ended up being a disaster. And look, let

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Speaker 2: me ask you this, Dan, That's obviously what Trump is

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Speaker 2: afraid of with Iran. That's why he wants a stable

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Speaker 2: success or government. He's looking for someone to who's got

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Speaker 2: enough legitimacy, enough cachet, enough appeal enough, not you know,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be universally beloved, but enough that

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Speaker 2: and better than the Mullahs. Like again, like he put

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Speaker 2: in like he's put in place in Venezuela, So we

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Speaker 2: don't have to be there put boots on the ground

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Speaker 2: to prop up a government, some kind of an interim government,

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Speaker 2: because then that leads to Iraq and god knows, you know,

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Speaker 2: an insurgency against us. So my question to you is this, then,

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Speaker 2: do you believe the regime is going to fall? And

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Speaker 2: can Trump pull one more rabbit out of his hat

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Speaker 2: and get a stable successor government. If he does that,

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Speaker 2: it's the ballgame? What say you?

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 3: I honestly think that trying to put in a successor

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Speaker 3: government is going to be next to impossible. I think

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Speaker 3: that the US has taken this stance obviously for the

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Speaker 3: last you know, forty years, is that we are better

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Speaker 3: off fighting a bunch of punks than one major force.

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Speaker 3: So let a Ran splinter, let them kill each other,

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Speaker 3: let them go to war with each other, and we'll

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Speaker 3: take a backseat and fight off the punks as they

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Speaker 3: come up.

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Speaker 2: Interesting. Dan, Interesting, So okay, so Dan says, and Dan thinks, no,

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Speaker 2: we'll have regime change the Mullas will be toppled. But

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Speaker 2: then let Iran disintegrate, and as Iran splits apart, you'll

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Speaker 2: see factions emerge and they'll start fighting among themselves, and

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Speaker 2: we just try to contain it as much as possible.

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Speaker 2: But what you may end up seeing is anarchy, chaos,

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Speaker 2: and you know, let these you know, let them just

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Speaker 2: slaughter each other, and that'll weaken them more, and weaken

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Speaker 2: the more, and weaken the more. Agree disagree your calls.

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