There's No Doubt That Iran

What We Want For The Iranian People Is Control Over Their Own Government, Which They Don't Have Now. So You Would Do It Through Supplying Resources And Support From The Outside To The Indigenous People Who Are Already Quite Unhappy. The Mullahs Have Made Hash Of The Economy Since 1979, There's A Huge Amount Of Economic Dissatisfaction. The Young People, Who Are Pretty Well Educated And Sophisticated, Know They Could Have A Better Life Than This Strict Islamic Law.

The Culture Of The State Department Is Very Negative Towards A Conservative Foreign Policy. And The Model That We All Have, Of Civil Servants As Neutral Careerists Who Carry Out The Policy Of The Elected President, Doesn't Work Nearly The Way It Should In The State Department. So That There Are Many People Who Want To Be Good Civil Servants, Who Want To Try And Carry Out These Policies, But Are Afraid To Do So. And I'm Not Even Counting The Very Small Number Of Conservatives In The State Department Who Are Genuinely At Risk.

I Haven't Given Up On The Possibility That Sweet Reason Will Prevail.

The Nobel Peace Prize Has Become Hopelessly Politicized. I Think It Cheapens The Prize Itself.

By Creating A Prosecutor Who Is Overseen Over By A Court, They Are Melding Executive And Judicial Power In A Way That Can Lead To Terrible Abuses - As The Founders Of America Understood Full Well. It's Why They Created A System Of Separated Powers - To Set Up A Constitutional Mechanism That Would Enhance Freedom, By Making Sure That No One's Accumulation Of Power Could Predominate Over [that Of] Others.