MEF Chief Editor Jim Hanson told Pete Hegseth who was guest host of the Ingraham Angle on FOX News that Iran cannot be brought into the community of nations though coddling or bribery. The Islamic Republic has beliefs that fundamentally conflict with modern society.
The segment was edited for length. The transcript reflects the edited version.
Pete Hegseth (Host): Well, Jim, I want to remind our viewers something that Joe Biden said on the campaign trail in 2020 about Trump watch. The world has changed because what Trump has done and the American people, including independents and some Republicans know how bad he is, how he’s getting close to getting this in a war. I said as the walls close in and this man, I’m worried he’s going to get us to war in Iran. Unfortunately, I may have been right. Or maybe you’re the one that could get us in a war with Iran that didn’t age well, did it?
Jim, the thing that Joe Biden said on the campaign trail in 2020 about Trump watch, the world has changed because of what Trump has done. And the American people, including independents and some Republicans know how bad he is, how he’s getting close to getting us into war. I said as the walls close in on this man, I’m worried he’s going to get us to war in Iran. Unfortunately, I may have been right. Or maybe you’re the one that could get us in a war with Iran that didn’t age well, did it, Jim?
Jim Hanson (Guest): Well, with Biden, nothing ages well. And this is just another in a long list that’s quite distinguished of his foreign policy failures. I think the major problem right now with the way the Biden administration is dealing with Iran is they’re clinging to this delusion from back when he was partnering with Obama to do cringing capitulation as their foreign policy, that they can bring Iran back into the community of nations if they just treat them nicely enough, and that is never going to happen. The idea that Iran doesn’t mean to do these horrible things is insane. It’s a feature, not a bug, in the islamist system that they run.
They are looking for Armageddon and they are willing to do what it takes to get to it. And we’re all just playing along as if that’s something we can change.
