Brent Sadler – Heritage Foundation Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Certainly most of us do stand with Israel. The Biden
administration not quite so much. Brent Sadler joins us at
the Heritage Foundation. It's the one year anniversary of the
horrific attack on October the seventh, Brent, and our policy
is just as muddled with the Biden administration today as
it was last October seventh.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
No, yeah, I think the inability of the current administration
to very clearly and explicitly support Israel, and the failure
to apply any pressure whatsoever in the real terms on Iran,
on its support to proxies and the terror organization hesbla
Hamas and the who these is why we're at this
sad anniversary.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
And how it's being observed around the world. I'm kind
of curious about that. I know what we're trying to
do here in this country. How else is it being recognized,
if at all. I know that Hamas and Hesbel are
launching more missiles into Israel.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, the war is actually turning into a very aggressive state.
I mean, it's turning in favor of Israel, but the
intensity is actually you know, coming to a culminating point.
Israel's in the early stages of a ground incursion into
southern Lebanon. They've been very effective at decapitating Hezbolah. But

(01:19):
we also saw the larger of two mass missile attacks
from Iran into Israel just recently last week, and the
world is waiting. I think, most notably the Mullahs in
Taruan are waiting for a response from Israel that many
anticipate will be significant.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
And if that does happen, what do you suspect will
happen next? You know, there's a lot of talk about
a potential World War three. Are you concerned about that
or do you think that this is going to remain
strictly in the Middle East region of the world.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, I think the powers that would that would see
this potentially go intour would fight a world war. China
Russia have their hands full in other areas, so no,
I think this will stay constained. I don't think it'll
directly bring in the United States in an offensive action
against Iran, because Iran also doesn't want to pick a

(02:11):
fight with the United States right now by attacking our
forces directly, which would be that red line triggering an
American attack. I think Israel is vindicated, and if it attacks,
I think it's got several potential targets. The most challenging
and risky and the longest would to go after is
Iran's nuclear programs. But there are other options on the

(02:34):
table that I think would further isolate the Iranians and
also taking out their oil, takes away their money.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Have we conveniently forgotten most of the American people that
it was our government, this regime that lifted the sanctions
against Iran, that in the last night of Obama's presidency,
flew in a bunch of palace of cash to Iran.
They funded all this terror Hezbola any wrong on American dogars?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, I mean it's a ideology. First, seems to be
this national security team's approach, because history definitely approves that
appeasement doesn't lead to peace, it only comes through strength,
and this administration has refused to acknowledge that. And it's
actually worse than removing sanctions. They're not enforcing sanctions that

(03:25):
are still in place, and even more to the point,
they've actually encouraged other nations to release funds and the
tunes of tens of billions of dollars to the regime
in Tehran. So the molas are flush and cash, so
no surprise that they've actually continued to support in a
more aggressive and much greater scale in the last year

(03:47):
or two their proxies, which is the preferred way of
exercising influence and coercion.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, and again thanks to us. All right, Brent, thank you,
appreciate your time. Brett Sadler with the Heritage Foundation,