re: Megyn Kelly coming back around?

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She thinks neocons like graham helped Bebe pull the strings he needed to convince Trump to get involved when Israel could have done this on their own

Also hurting his poll numbers amid midterms

Nobody likes higher gas prices. We have a lot of evil corruption in our own country to get to before we can worry about Iran imo. We helped a lot. I think she wants an off ramp so we can not add ground troops or be involved for much longer

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Thanks, but I was really asking for the poster's thoughts, not Megyn Kelly's.

But I'll respond to Megyn's since you took the time to post them.

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She thinks neocons like graham helped Bebe pull the strings he needed to convince Trump to get involved when Israel could have done this on their own

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What access does Megyn Kelly have to military intelligence, expert military advice, and classified information that gives her a better basis from which to make a decision about attacking Iran than the POTUS? Cause, you know, Trump has access to all of that stuff.

I don't know what happened behind the scenes (and neither does MK), and I suppose it's possible that all the objective data and expert military and tactical advice was to not pull this trigger, but Lindsey Graham was just so persuasive that he made Trump go against all of it. That's logically possible.

Is it likely, though?

Trump does impulsive things sometimes. Sometimes he's even vulnerable to manipulation in certain contexts.

But I haven't observed him doing/being either one of those things with regard to foreign policy.

Have you?

In fact, foreign policy (tariffs aside, because I don't think he listens to anyone else regarding those) and immigration seem to be the area in which he is most consistent and solid.

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Also hurting his poll numbers amid midterms

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With the answer to criticism #1 still in mind, this is the SFP philosophy. "We can't restrict abortion, no one will vote for us." "We can't do what is necessary for ICE to find and round up illegals, no one will vote for us."

What's the benefit of being in office if you are unwilling to do anything except what the opposing party is also willing to do? Why does it matter if you win elections if all you do is what they would do? We have a majority of Republicans in Congress right now and can't pass the SAVE Act.

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Nobody likes higher gas prices.

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What do you think would happen to the Strait of Hormuz—and consequently, gas prices—if Iran got a nuke and lobbed it at Israel (which they would most definitely do if they got one...it wouldn't sit in the silo for more than 24 hours)? Everyone in the region would collapse down on Iran and the first thing they would do is exactly what they're doing now...close it down.

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We have a lot of evil corruption in our own country to get to before we can worry about Iran imo.

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You could make that argument if we could only do one thing at a time, but that's not true, so...

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I think she wants an off ramp so we can not add ground troops or be involved for much longer

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Back to point #1. What intelligence, classified information, and expert military advice is she relying on to come to the conclusion that that's what the US should do?

When you see people saying stuff like this it's the Dunning Kruger effect in real time. In the age of such vast amounts of information available on a phone, people think they know all they need to know to evaluate a situation like this, but they don't. And it's not close.

Well she's right that while Republicans are bad they're better than dems. She's wrong about this quote..."they opened the borders without a thought of what it would do"....they absolutely knew and that's exactly why they did it.