Iran’s attack against Israel made barely any impact (despite what Iran is telling its people). But will Israel strike back? It has the right to, and many Israeli leaders seem to want to, but SHOULD it? Glenn and Stu discuss whether it’s worth risking World War III, or whether Iran is too weak to do anything else.
Transcript
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GLENN: Okay. So let's just recap what we know now, what happened over the weekend with the Iranian attack on Israel. First of all, the Iran state TV used footage from the Texas fire. Also, there was footage of One Direction.
STU: The band?
GLENN: The band. And it was Israelis, panicking while under attack while under missiles and drones. Unfortunately, it was just a throng of excited One Direction fans.
STU: Wow, the fact that those things look the same, may make you rethink things if you're a One Direction fan.
GLENN: It really does. They also use a picture of a forest fire in Chile. So, you know, they're running all kinds of lies. I don't know if their people understand that they really made no impact at all.
STU: I'm kind of -- look, I kind of hope -- this is weird. I kind of hope they are able to convince their people, that they made an impact.
Because maybe this will somewhat calm down.
GLENN: So the president boasted the attack had, quote, taught a lesson to the Zionist regime. They were chanting with their fists in the air, death to Israel. Death to America. Yay. And Hezbollah supporters were out in the streets, of southern Beirut, honking their horns and celebrating.
And they warned that Jordan would be the next target, if it took any measures in Israel's defense.
So everybody is just like holding back.
Except for Israel. Now, my goals may not be the same goals, as the Israelis. My interests are, let's not have any terrorism here in America.
And let's try to bring peace to the world.
Israel has played this game for so long. They're not going to sit back. At least the word we're getting from their -- their war committee, was that it was a brawl.
The defense minister stated yesterday, that Israel's confrontation with Iran is not over yet.
The public security minister demanded a crushing attack, against Iran. Another minister, declared Iran's audacity in such an attack, must be erased.
Meanwhile, Iran's mission to the UN said, should the Israeli regime make another mistake. Iran's response will be considerably more severe.
And warned the US to stay away. Okay. I don't know what they can do with their -- their missiles. Quite honestly.
I think it was embarrassing. If that were us, well, that would be us. Because Joe Biden is in charge. Maybe Joe Biden helped them with planning of this mission. But that were us. That would be humiliating.
Absolutely humiliating.
And, I mean, it's the -- wouldn't you say, it was the most lopsided thing you have seen, possibly ever? With the amount that they fought back?
STU: Yeah. It goes back to a couple of examples. The first gulf war.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: Remember that.
GLENN: Except they fought back. And they did hit targets. This one hit -- they say three -- the outside is ten. That they hit ten -- that missiles hit ten things. They fired over 300.
STU: 300, right. The other one that comes to mind. The way we reacted in Afghanistan, when the Taliban started taking it over again. We kind of just all ran. And that -- that seemed -- that was embarrassing. I was embarrassing that way. The way I think Iran should be embarrassed this way. That's if their intent is to actually get a lot of damage. Look, we have an alternate theory. We talked about it yesterday.
They floated a bunch of flying lawn mowers over there. With 12 hours notice for a reason.
To say, hey. Shoot all these town.
We don't want to start an international war. If we don't do something in our country. Our people will overthrow us.
GLENN: So you're sitting in Israel.
And I say, Stu. What are you going to do? Now, you're an Israeli.
You're in the defense cabinet. And I say, what are you going to do?
Because the whole world hates us right now?
And if we retaliate, then we're in trouble. Should we just walk away and call this thing?
GLENN: Again, there's so much to weigh here. And I'm an idiot. But I will tell you, my initial instinct is, you have a free hall pass to --
GLENN: No. No. No. No. Your first impression is you're an to it. I just don't want that to get lost.
STU: The second impression was --
GLENN: The first one was, again --
STU: I'm an idiot. Number two. And I should not be making these decisions for any nation. We should be clear about that. That's not a good policy, because I'm an idiot.
GLENN: Sure. You're an idiot. You could work for the Biden administration.
STU: I will say, maybe I should leave the country. This one here, because it seems that's the path to success these days.
GLENN: Correct.
STU: But I will say, what my thought would be, is you have a free hall pass to do another Syria type of operation. Right?
You can -- of course, are justified. If I was an Israeli, you would be justified to launch at least 300 missiles towards Iran. You're justified morally to do so.
However, what I would like to do is tamp this down, so it doesn't inflame into something worse. If you were are to do something like they did in Syria. Where you took over some important, overseas. Not in Iran. Type of operation. That would actually benefit you.
Not like as a show of power or strength. If you're Israel, you don't need to do that. What you need to do is do something that would actually benefit you.
And I think it would be difficult for the world to be all that upset.
If you went and did another operation like that.
GLENN: I forgot.
I was going to say, no. No. No.
STU: That's a smart answer for an idiot.
GLENN: I forgot you were an idiot. It would be tough for the world to say.
You remember, you're a Jew here.
STU: Right. So they --
GLENN: They can say whatever they want.
STU: They can say whatever they want.
GLENN: They're always the pad guy.
STU: But there is a line.
The world wasn't overly outraged about the Syria operation in the first place.
Iran was.
And everyone was talking about what their response would be.
No one was like, oh, gosh. I can't believe they did that.
Some people did, of course.
Look, there was 150 countries, that voted not -- that voted to condemn Israel, over the whole Gaza situation.
And when given the opportunity, I think it was Austria, that proposed an amendment that said, hey. Shouldn't we condemn Hamas for October 7th in this thing?
Ask they voted no.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: Of course, they said no to that.
At some level, you can't care at all, what some of these countries think.
They will just think, Jew equals bad.
But I think to not make this go over the top. And flame out of control.
And also, get and done, that you're completely justified for. And will benefit for your country.
If you can walk that line. If there's another target like that. That seems highly justified and appropriate.
What do you think? You're not an idiot, right? You're a doctor.
GLENN: I'm a doctor, so I'm not an idiot.
STU: Do you notice this? Does anyone in the audience, even notice he does this? He asks these tough questions, and he never gives his own answer. It's pathetic.
GLENN: Because I'm trying to move the show. I'm trying to move the show.
STU: Move the --
GLENN: See, you don't want me. You don't want me anywhere near the buttons of any -- for any country.
Because we would run out of missiles quickly.
Because I have -- I have a short attention span.
And I also have a short fuse. It would be like, hmm. They did what.
Yeah. Launch.
I would be over there, saying, the world is going to hate us, anyway. They're building a nuclear weapon supply.
We know now what they're capable of doing from the sky. That's great. But if they get a nuclear weapon over our border, any way, shape, or form.
Millions will die.
And we know they're serious. And the rest of the world, can say whatever they want. But take up out their nuclear facilities.
STU: In country.
GLENN: In country.
STU: Look, he's been wanting to do it for a long time. And I think that's entirely justified.
GLENN: He has to. He has to.
No one in the world will do it, until he ignites one of those things.
STU: That is true. It probably does extend this though, right?
That's the risk.
GLENN: Oh. It's going to --
STU: Netanyahu has been wanting to do this forever, and I think has been looking for an opening to do it.
GLENN: Justifiably so.
STU: Justifiably so. Again, I'm not being critical. If I were Israeli. I think probably I would be for a much more aggressive response.
GLENN: Enough is enough.
STU: But I'm not. And I'm -- I'm thinking more selfishly frankly as an American.
GLENN: Yeah. Me too. Me on top.
STU: I think that's appropriate for us to do. America first is a dumb sort of slogan, but also very true.
It's also misused by many factions over the years.
GLENN: Yeah. Correct.
STU: But, I mean, it is the appropriate priority list for the United States.
GLENN: If you're going to take care of somebody, you don't swamp the lifeboats. That is what we're doing with our border. We're swamping the lifeboats.
How had we help anybody, if we can't help ourselves?
How will we help anybody, if we're fighting terror here?
I don't want terror here. But we've already swamped the lifeboats with a whole bunch of terrorists, apparently that are already here.
But we're not doing anything about it. So my America first kind of has to go to, let Israel do what Israel cares to do.
They can handle it. They're big boys. They can handle it. We'll handle our thing over here.
Now, with that being said. I know that Iran will not let us get away with that.
Iran will immediately activity. They're already activating the people. Who do you think. Hamas is paid for by the Iranians. So when you're in New York City. And you're holding a Hamas flag, you are doing the bidding of the Iranians.
So they're already here. And it's coming. And I would like to delay it, quite honestly, as long as possible.
But, you know, let Israel be Israel.
By the way, we have a news from Israel's Channel 12 News. They carried a report, that the country's Air Force, which includes US-made 16s, fifteens, and F-35s are already gearing up to deliver a retaliatory counterstrike against Iran.
According to the report, the strike will be intended as a message that Israel will not allow an attack of that magnitude, to pass without reaction.
That's actually good. That's a good reaction from them. Because doesn't that sound limited?
I'm just looking for happy things.
Turning rocks. Oh, no. That's a friendly worm. That's a friendly bug.
The strike intended a message, Israel will not allow an attack of that magnitude, to pass without a reaction.
