rant · moment 10 of 21
Neocons, Iran, and the Forever War Machine
from Stay At Home Summer & Being A Good Guest | The Tim Dillon Show #439 · #439
10 min
Tim launches into a long rant about the bipartisan foreign policy establishment's endless appetite for war, tracing it from Iraq and Afghanistan to the current push toward Iran, and mocking the caves/terrorist mythology used to justify it.
- Tim describes neoconservatives and neoliberals as people who love going to war all the time, citing Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.
- Every conflict since he became conscious follows the same pattern: allies have unimpeachable integrity, opponents are irrational monsters, and America is just trying to help people live democratically.
- During the Iraq War on Long Island, people in Dunkin' Donuts kept saying the real problem was Iran and that the U.S. would go to war there next.
- These people have been convinced that Iran is going to take their Levitt house in Levittown, and that a major war is needed to stop it.
- Tim mocks the contradiction in how the government has sold citizens on threats from people in caves who are simultaneously religious fundamentalists and futuristic tech geniuses coordinating attacks from caves.
- Instead of tightening security to keep attackers out, the government decided the solution was to overturn governments around the world and make people love America by bombing them.
- These people believe in endless war because the financial incentives are too strong, directly correlated with defense spending budgets now reaching a trillion dollars under Trump.
- Trump campaigned as a peace president who wouldn't engage in wars but is now proposing a trillion-dollar defense budget.
- Tim questions whose security a potential war with Iran is actually for, noting that Israel wants the conflict because it's in their interest.
- If the U.S. destabilizes the entire Middle East region, China and Russia might get involved, potentially leading to World War III while the economy has already tanked.
- America must stop treating regime change as the only option and learn to deal with dangerous, threatening countries without directly going to war.
- America's moment running the world is over—China is economically equal or greater, India is coming up, Russia has more nuclear weapons than anyone, and many countries can't simply be bent to American will.
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