And so as the Vietnam War came to an end and Vietnam syndrome began to set in, as Kissinger pushed for pragmatism, Wolfowitz made it his mission to restore idealism to American foreign policy.

So Wolfowitz, among the neoconservatives, became a leading critic of detente and of all of, uh, Kissinger's foreign policies.

And then he turned his gaze beyond Iraq's borders.

Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait.

It's the first real test of the international order.

Now that there's no Cold War, is all hell gonna break loose?

Why? Why?

Well, one, as a matter of American public attention and the administration's attention, it's not focused on China.

And two, as a matter of military supplies, the United States is using up a lot of the hardware that it needs for both Ukraine and And for above all, for a potential war with China.

So let me come back to Colin Powell for a second.

Yeah, Colin Powell was known his his mindset above all.

was as military leader and chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

And his idea, his mindset was always save everything for the big war.

Absolutely.

I may even throw in

here the Gulf War 10 years or a decade before.

Good.

Because in both those cases, you know, one war conducted by George H.W. Bush and one by George W., there was a long run-up.

In the case of the Gulf War, it was about five months in which George W. Bush carefully cultivated and won an authorization for the use of force and United Nations approval, which was a difficult thing to do.

That was a response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

And then we get to the Iraq War, where it was again in response to an invasion and attack on the United States in that case.

So everything around Trump is, I guess, ironic.