Iran War, Why Failure Was Inevitable - Gracearchy with Jim Babka 164

Bombing campaigns. Boots on the ground. Even nukes. There's no shortage of confident opinions about what Trump should've done differently in Iran.

This episode takes the best of those ideas seriously. Not the strawman versions, but one of the strongest ideas out there: airdropping weapons to Iranians so they could rise up and overthrow the regime themselves. It's a clever idea. It's also wrong, and we'll walk through exactly why.

Along the way... Three reasons arms were never dropped, what Friedrich Hayek, Richard Maybury, and Harry Browne would say about why government interventions fail, and BRAND NEW! - the "Tax-Funded Midas Curse" — a concept that explains why this failure was baked in from the start.

NOTES & RESOURCES

WarTruth.org - the history of U.S. Gov foreign interventions: https://wartruth.org/

TruthAboutWar.org - predicting the problems with the Iraq War: https://truthaboutwar.org/home.shtml

CHAPTERS

0:00 Prefer regime change

0:35 Theme

0:48 It wasn't done right

2:02 Regime change air ball

6:16 Dropping arms to the people