KIRK: Lindsey Graham and the neocons’ push for regime change in Iran is “pathologically insane.”
“Lindsey Graham is so consistently out of his mind it's hard to even comprehend...”
“Iran is hugely diverse. It is a massive country. Do the people agitating for war even know that? Because [let's] be clear: regime change is war...”
“You're talking about a country 2 1/2 times the size of Texas [that] has 90 million people and was an ancient and great power with well over a dozen ethnic groups...”
“Who's gonna run the country, exactly, Lindsey Graham? This sounds like Hillary Rodham Clinton in Libya...”
He went on to contrast the neocons with the “other extreme” represented by non-interventionists like Ron Paul, which he says he has “deep respect and reverence for.”
“I LOVE Ron Paul. Ron Paul is awesome. I would have Ron Paul on my show regularly. He is a hero.... I actually agree with this other extreme A LOT...”
“I honestly don't think the neoconservative extreme needs to be represented philosophically anymore. It's uninteresting to me. They've done a mess of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the entire Middle East, Ukraine...”
“‘TAKE OUT THE AYATOLLAH!’ Resist that temptation. That's not prudence. That's not self-control... That's a zeal. And the very same zeal got us involved in a pile of GARBAGE in Iraq... A lot of people died, a lot of Americans died, unnecessarily...”
These clips are from June 17, 2025, less than three months before he was assassinated.
Mike