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…We know that. That’s a premise for our whole discussion here. Therefore, what he’s saying is we’re going to have to keep escalating the war until the mission is accomplished. Not sure I said that. Scott, I think it’s, again, important that the distinction here. We both agree that Iran deserves a civilian nuclear program. 23 countries have civilian nuclear programs and they don’t have enrichment and they don’t have reprocessing. Where we differ is, I don’t think Iran should have the Iran standard. I think that Iran should agree to the gold standard that 23 US allies have agreed to. Have civilian nuclear program, but you don’t get to keep the key enrichment and reprocessing capabilities that you need to develop nuclear weapons. Do you think that Bill Clinton should have just let the Chinese sell them the light water reactor that they wanted to back in the ’90s?…

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