Stopping a Nuclear Iran

I was talking to this friend last night, and he's very insightful.

And he, at one point in life, was in the news media.

He's, he's out of it.

He's a str-- he's, he's the strongest critic I know of it, especially now.

And he just brought this up out of nowhere, and it made me think a lot.

He goes, "Could you imagine if it was D-Day, and on D-Day, when we slammed the beaches of Normandy..." Remember we had Marty call into this program for years.

Marty.

I know.

And he lost an eye fighting for this country.

I mean, if you've ever seen the opening scene of the movie Private Ryan and you wanna know the devastation of war, I mean, here our kids are slamming the beaches of Normandy, and, you know, the Nazis are-- have the high ground, and it's like a mass slaughter.

That day we lost two thousand five hundred and one Americans.

Uh, and you look at Pearl Harbor, two thousand four hundred and three Americans that day.

My father spent four years fighting in the Pacific.

I mean, he wouldn't talk to me about it, and they were, th-they were not good years in his life.

He lost a lot of friends.

World War II, we lost four hundred and sixteen thousand eight hundred people.

World War I, a hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred and sixteen.

Civil War, I think we lost about seven hundred and fifty thousand, if my memory serves me correctly.

Uh, we lost a lot of people in Vietnam, fifty-eight thousand American lives.

We lost two thousand nine hundred and, and seventy-seven Americans on 9/11/01.

Uh, the ensuing conflicts and battles between...

And we lost two thousand four hundred and fifty-six soldiers in Afghanistan, three hundred and ninety-t-- uh, three thousand nine hundred twenty-three contractor civilian workers.

In Iraq, four thousand four hundred and thirty-one.

Um, and I just...