I think America will be back fighting Iran again in a few years, no matter what happens now.
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Discussing the future of U.S.-Iran relations.
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The answer is no, not at all. Not in 100 years. These plans that the Pentagon develops, we -- we develop these plans to deal with every potential crisis that's out there.
It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.
I think it was Walter Mondale when he was asked about the legacy of the Carter administration, said something like, we told the truth, we followed the law and we preserve the peace.
Autocrats that once operated in their own spheres of influence have now joined together in an axis of mutual support and aggression.





