Listen as Larry spoke with Professor Victor Davis Hanson, a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, about President Trump bombing Afghanistan and his latest article, The Obama Administration’s Zelig.
Hanson believes President Trump bombing Afghanistan was a message to Iran and China:
O’Connor: We are told Victor Davis Hanson that the GBU-43/B, massive ordinance air blast, the bomb that was dropped, which I believe is 23,000 pounds and guided a smart bomb, it’s been in our arsenal since 2003 and it has not been used. The fact that it was used now and that call was made, what does that say about Trump as Commander in Chief and also what message is sent with regard to our strategies against our terroristic enemies?
Hanson: I think the military affectionately called it the Mother of All Bombs. And I think it’s designed, it will hurt ISIS but I think it’s really a message to Iran that if it were, and once we get the post-bombing intelligence on it, if it was that effective it would be telling Iranians that Trump is unpredictable and he is capable of anything at any time and he has the ordinance that can go quite deep into a cave and hit the center fuse. So I think a lot of this Syrian stuff and Afghanistan is sort of warning Russia and China, ‘hey you guys you have these [inaudible] clients like Iran, North Korea, Syria and you’ve been having a great time these last 8 years unleashing them on everybody, but I want to restore U.S. deterrence’. I’m not doing anything radical, I just want to bring back foreign policy to the way it was in 2007, before the Obama transformation’. And if you call that radical that’s your problem but we’re going to go back to a point where you don’t hit American ships on the high seas, or you don’t hijack them or you don’t send missiles close to our ships or you don’t threaten Japan everyday, it’s just not going to happen. You can call it what you want but part of that message needs to be backed up with stuff like he just did.
An excerpt of Hanson’s article featured on National Review is below:
Susan Rice is the real version of Woody Allen’s cinematic character Zelig, who in the movie of the same name popped up almost anywhere as an expert on anything. As U.N. ambassador from 2009 to 2013, and later as National Security Adviser from 2013 to 2017, Rice seemed to have turned up everywhere there was an Obama-administration implosion. She was always eager to offer a supposedly expert assessment — one that also always proved wrong or untrue or both. [Read More]
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