I found Sen. Mark Warner’s interview last night on CNN to be really striking; as the interviewer said, Sen. Warner seemed “shaken” by everythng going on right now with Iran, etc. Check it out, below:
- Sen. Warner: “I would pray not [any American ‘boots on the ground’ in Iran]…And clearly, this president got elected on the basis of no more endless wars in the Middle East. But I sometimes think…we know the President says rash things. I don’t think he thinks them through. But when the President of United States calls on the Iranian people to go into the streets and take back their government and if there’s 100,000 protesters and then tens of thousands of them are killed by the Iranians because they responded to the American president’s call to action, do we owe a moral obligation? I don’t know. I do know this, your words if you’re President of the United States – and this President is never careful with his words or his threats or his boasts…”
- CNN interviewer: “Senator, I’ll admit you know, I’ve interviewed you many times over many years, and, you know, you seem a bit, I guess ‘shaken’ might be the word. I mean, how do you feel right now when you see what’s happening, when you see and hear what you were just briefed on?”
- Sen. Warner: “I just think that we don’t have…we didn’t have to be here. I spent yesterday down in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, where 40% of the people I was talking to had sons and daughters and friends that were deployed on the Ford and these other ships where their loved ones are in harm’s way and potentially future casualties. Because there was acknowledgment today that there will be more casualties. And if i can’t answer them what’s our goal? Why is my kid potentially going to be put in harm’s way? What is America’s overwhelming interest that my son or daughter is going to be in combat and may perish? For what? And I can’t give him an answer. Yeah, that is very, very sobering to me.”
