Dr. Brian L. Cox

This is the most telling clip of this entire exchange between Ro Khanna & Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Pete Hegseth. Ro: "You don't even know how we pay in terms of the missiles that hit the Iranian school." Guess who else keeps using "the Iranian school" in public messaging. Terrorists in Iran. Ro should consider going to join them since that's clearly where his loyalties lie. First of all, the expectation that a sitting Secretary of War will assign a specific dollar amount to how much an armed conflict will "cost the American people" is absurd. That's exactly what Ro does in this exchange - though of course he doesn't cite his source or explain his methodology. Still, the rhetorical "cost" must be measured in comparison with the price for maintaining the pre-conflict status quo. As The White House recently explained, "More Americans have been killed by Iran than any other terrorist regime on Earth." ( And "roughly one in every six American combat fatalities in Iraq were attributable to Iran." ( Not to mention the potential cost of allowing Iran to develop nuclear weapons, considering that we now know they ALREADY have missiles that can reach most of continental Europe - including ~30 bases where ~68K 🇺🇸 troops are stationed. Ro doesn't seem to want to talk about any of that while he's trying to corner SECWAR into giving a simple answer to a complicated question that ultimately depends on how the "cost" is measured. Based on our previous exchanges here X, the part that I find most telling - and irritating - of all is the off-hand reference to the Minab school attack, though. All the rhetoric about this incident is currently based on speculative media reporting from anonymous sources. Yet the terrorist regime in Iran keeps emphasizing the incident in their public messaging because it plays well for Iran's useful idiots throughout the West - like Ro here. Even if we assume speculative media coverage is true, nothing that has been reported so far suggests a war crime was committed. At worst, it seems possible that the attack constitutes failure to take feasible precautions in the attack...which is NOT a "war crime" by any legitimate, doctrinal standard. But that doesn't stop useful idiots like Ro here from focusing on this incident AS THOUGH it were a war crime since doing so plays well in whatever bullshit public narrative he's trying to spin for the American people. Just like the terrorists in Iran keep doing...for the exact same reason. Besides, the munitions that have been employed so far have debilitated IRGCs military capabilities that the terrorists in Iran had spent decades & spent untold billions to accumulate. Ignoring this while reducing everything that has happened in the last ~2 months to "the missiles that hit the Iranian school" is just...dumb. If you look at Ro's TL right now it's clear he thinks he "schooled" SECWAR Hegseth (as Ed Krassenstein claims in a post Ro retweeted) in this exchange. In reality, all Ro did was confirm yet again why he's just another useful idiot who also happens to have a seat in Congress. I've said it before to Ro, and I'll say it again: stay in your lane. Leave LOAC analysis to Department of War 🇺🇸. And actual experts...like me.

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