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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A thirty to fifty five Krsity talk station. Happy Tuesday,
Extra special day to be tuned in the fifty five
Carssee Morning Show on the heels of the insight scoop
that Bright Bart News Daniel Davis Deep Dive with retired
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis. Welcome back here, Daniel. It is
always a pleasure to have you on the fifty five
KRSE Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Believe me, it's always a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, and given the topic, I could say the timing
couldn't be better or worse depending on your perspective and
how you're looking at it. To talk with you about
the situation unfolding in Israel. This morning, they launched ground
forces into southern Lebanon, trying to create a buffer space
so the sixty thousand displaced rallies in northern Israel can
move back. They were worried about Hesbala maybe launching a
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Gaza like attack a Lisa as I understand it. So
after bombing the hell out of Lebanon and hitting the
various leadership targets, which apparently they've been successful at doing,
now we've got boots on the ground in southern or
in southern Lebanon. And also, as I note a little
dicey situation, the USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft carrier strike group
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on its are is staying there. Is supposed to leave
after the Harry As Truman carrier strike group showed up.
But given the warlike environment, we got two carrier groups
going to be in the area.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Now we do yeah, and I'm i'm that's the thing
that alarms me the most because this has every possibility
of escalating further and potentially even drawing in is Iran
into this war. And that's the part that worries me,
because we seem to be cognizant of that fact and
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seem to be moving down the road. We had Secretary
of State Austin last night I think it was maybe
it was this morning. I didn't see the time on
this statement, but they said, yeah, we agree with everything
Israel is doing, but we give a warning to Iran
that if they do anything that we are sending all
this firepower to the region, all but declaring that we
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will also attack is Iran.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
If anything happens.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And listen, I understand that we have good relations with
Israel center, but we should not be sending the American
armed forces to fight on behalf of Israel as a
matter of just a court just like of course we will.
We don't have this relationship with them. And in fact,
the reason we have been sending three point eight billion
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every year and security assistance to Israel is so that
they can form the pre eminent military power and defend themselves,
which they have done in every single conflict in their history.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
There's no reason why this one should be different.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But it almost looks like we're eager to join the
fight against Iran, and that is a bad move.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, and I'll read you the quote, because it was
two days in a row. He made a similar statement,
I reiterated, referring to his conversation with his counterpartner Israel.
I reiterated, these serious consequences for Iran in the event
Iran chooses to launch a direct military attack against Israel.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
He's splitting hairs here, but isn't by virtue of Hesbala
and the other terrorist organizations directly controlled by Iran and
presumably not acting without approval from Iran, since Iran's the
one funding them and has been funding them that they
already have with that's a proxy war. Iran is waging
a proxy war against Israel through these terrorist groups, much
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in the same way we're waging a proxy war against
Russia via Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
All Right, there's not a lot of difference there. In fact,
there's no difference there, quite frankly. And so for us
to say this about Iran, I mean, forget about the
double standards for a moment. I'm still concerned about the
ease with which we're talking about moving into war. And listen,
our Constitution and the nineteen seventy three War Powers Act
are crystal clear.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Only the Congress can take us into war.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
The Commander chief cannot just choose to send our forces
into a situation which will result in a conflict unless
we or our forces are directly attacked. That's not even
on the table right now. So we need to be
talking about this at the Congress. But now nobody wants
to talk about anything except silly stuff with the election
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is relatively speaking, I'm not saying the election is silly,
but a lot of the topics are are relatively unimportant
compared to war and peace, which isn't even on the table.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And I think that should change right now.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, you know, and I've had conversations with Judge Ennena Paulatan,
who's on my program every week and on Wednesdays, about
the last time we declared war was World War Two?
What about the Korean War, Vietnam War, the invasion Iraq?
I mean, we could go on and on of all
the conflicts we've been in when there has been a
declaration of war. And I don't know that hiding behind
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an authorization for use of military force is constitutionally appropriate.
But that's leave that for the legal scholars to discuss
in the constitutional law. But we don't even have an
authorization for use of military force unless they're going to
rely on one.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's what twenty years old by.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Now, right, which your course was designed, you know, after
nine to eleven, I know, and it's been bastardized and
abused beyond belief. Some of those I think have actually
been retired, at least one of them had. But the
two thousand and three, when I think, is still on
the books. But still I mean, that would just be
just literally be lying. I mean, just call it what
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it is to try and claim that. But I don't
think anyone's even talking about that right now. I think
that Biden is just considering going through almost by just
defaults of just ordering it regardless of whether there is
or isn't, And no one seems to be concerned about that.
But listen, I'm telling you the reason why is don't
anybody think that if such an event occurred that this
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would be just like what we did with launch and
some missiles into Syria a few times in the last
fifteen or twenty years. This would be a war that
could draw us in, and it would be a lot
lot worse, and it could go substantially worse. So this
needs to be front and center on our radars right now.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Well, you have Iran telling Hesbala and the other terrorist
organizations to attack Israel. Basically I got that proxy war.
But in dealing with Iran directly, we are taking on
more than us to Iran, we would be also dealing
with the the they're now best friends Russia and other
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powers that hate us. I mean the Chinese Communist Party
for example, had now has a cozier relationship with Russia
and Iran than they did before these conflicts broke out.
It's almost as if we're pushing him into each other's arms.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, not almost, We definitely are pushing them into each
other's arms, and especially heading into now listening, I think
three weeks away this bricks conference, you know, in which
all these nations are trying to get together to form
an expanding economic competition to the G seven and to
the to the Western Way.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Uh, they have.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Every interest in keeping this thing, you know, off the table.
I think Russia and China especially they really want this
bricks Conference to come off without a hitch, and so
they probably don't want any conflict at all right now.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But that's only three weeks away.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
After that case, I think that the situation could change
dramatically because Russia is dependent to a large extent on
Iran and for them to continue to be able to
provide the drones and the missiles and other things that
they're doing with the Russian side, and I don't think
that they're just the Russians would just allow Iran to
be destroyed, especially if the US joined into a war
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against them, and everything could be on the table if
that happens.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, we kind of world War three, or at least
tiptoeing it around it without saying it out loud, Daniel,
I can't come up to any other conclusion, and do
we not have ourselves to blame for a variety of reasons.
But the sanctions that previously were in place were pretty
tough sanctions on Iran. As soon as the you know,
I remember the palettes of cash that Barack Obama dropped off,
and we had a period of time with the Trump administration,
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Biden lifted sanctions on Iran, and of course that frees
up money for them to fund terrorists and build drones
for the Russians or whoever. I mean, what of the
sanctions and why do we lift them in the first place.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Listen, if we're being honest, we got to back up
even before that, and whether we locked it or not,
Obama's twenty fifteen JCPOA the nuclear deal put significant constraints
on the Iranian regime, and their nuclear stockpiles were barely
anything at all. Their centrifugias were hardly any, just a
handful for research. But since we got out of the JCPOWAY,
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all those constraints came off. And now then all those
amounts and tops of centrifugions and everything else are at
the table because we lost all of our leverage. And
then of course we put sanctions on and then they
try to get them back off. All that was a mess,
no doubt, But really it started when we took a
kat out of the JCP away and took the constraints off,
and so naturally they went in the opposite direction. So
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we do have ourselves to blame in our reactions since
that time have only compounded it.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All Right, Well, what of the red line? Serious consequences?
And I guess we can all define what serious consequences
for Iran might mean if they got directly involved. But
is this another one of those red lines in the
sand that we just sort of ignore after the red
line has crossed in order to avoid this broader glow
war from breaking out.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Listen, I got to tell you I'm a little more
concerned with with some of the statements made by Netan Yahoo.
I guess, right before all this stuff started, when he
all but called out Iran so as his troops were
on the border ready to invade into Lebanon, he gave
a warning not to the leban These people, but to
the Iranian people and said, when your government falls and
something's going to happen much earlier than you think, when
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you're going to be free, then all these things can happen,
which tells me he's already thinking about going in that direction,
because I think, listen, we got to be honest. I
think that Yahoo has and his government, not just him personally,
has said, all right, this is our golden opportunity for
our existence. We're going to get rid of the palest
Indian problem, the Hesbolo problem, and the Iranian problem all
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at one time. But the only way he can do
that is if he draws the US into it. And
that's why we should put the brakes on and say, listen,
we're not going to fight a war for you, so
do not start one with Iran. Defend yourself straight up,
no question about it, but do not expand beyond on
this and start a war that you can't finish.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
On your own.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, and underline that by saying, hey, by the way,
we're going to need congressional approval if we do choose
to join the fight, and we don't have any right now,
so there isn't any guarantee that it's going to happen.
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