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…Can I ask you, does it bother you that when Naftali Bennett bombed a UN shelter full of 106 women and children in Qana, Lebanon in 1996, that that’s what motivated Mohamed Atta and Ramzi bin al-Shibh to join Al-Qaeda and attack our towers? Scott, you know what bothers me? I came to this country 22 years ago. I became a proud US citizen 10 years ago. I’m proud to be an American and accusing me or Lex or any immigrants to this country of not being un-American is deeply offensive. Let me answer Lex’s question. Lex, let’s get back to your question because I think it’s an important question. What are the chain of events that could lead 500,000 mechanized US troops to have to invade Iran, which would be a disaster? That’s something we never want to see again. That’s one of the lessons of Iraq. I think Scott has done a good job over the years in demonstrating that we don’t want to do that again. Is there such a scenario? I think one must never rule it out because there is a scenario, for example, where the regime collapses and there’s chaos inside Iran. Not suggesting that’ll happen. There are a whole bunch of scenarios maybe we should talk about with respect to the collapse of the regime. But you could see a scenario where the United States would have to go in there in order to try to secure military and nuclear and missile assets so that it doesn’t end up the hands of warring factional and ethnic groups that Scott referred to. Because again, as he’s rightly pointed out, Iran is not Persia. Can’t the IDF handle it?…

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