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They look on them better than they do on the current Iranian leaders
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I think if he was to destroy the civilisation and carpet bomb it as he was threatening not two days ago
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I don't think they would like that very much. I think that phrase, I'm getting really sick of hearing people take that phrase of destroy a civilisation
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and misunderstand what he meant by that. Because do you think he genuinely wanted to wipe out 90 million Iranian people
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I don't think he knows what he wants, to be honest. I think he knows exactly what he wants
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Of course that is the case, that we shouldn't take this literally
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At the same time, the one concern I have about the rhetoric now is has Donald Trump played the art of the deal one time too many
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And you and I are both saying, of course he didn't mean that. And if we're both saying that, and all intelligent people are saying that
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the Iranians know that as well. So what's the point in saying it? If it's not going to be step one of the art of the deal
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which is put forward an outrageous position, hope that they believe it and then pull back to something
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where you get what you want. And my concern is here, and with NATO as well, when he's claiming that he'll pull out, NATO
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are going to say, you know what, Trump doesn't believe what he's saying, so why should we? Just like the Iranians will go, Trump is full of empty threats and therefore we're going