israel, it a appears, has prevented that. but when it comes to the broader iranian project of, in a certain sense, trying to hollow out those systems and societies in iraq, syria and lebanon and replace them with iran-controlled power structures, yeah, it s very hard to see how that could be prevented by air warfare. i think, frankly, it cannot be. which means what we re looking at is the likelihood of continued iranian attempts to consolidate, probably successful in all three countries, and then as you said, periodic israeli actions to stop the danger from growing too close and too intent. it s a version of what s happening in gaza which we describe in israel, of course, as mowing the grass. every so often israel goes in to hit hamas and deter them, written on a far larger canvas. paul: can the u.s. do much to help israel other than say that we re, we have their back? i think so. i think look, i think the
they have to be provided by government-licensed pharmacies. they were not, the a.g. was not able to show that johnson & johnson did anything illegal, let alone criminal here. paul: so did he even try to show what you would call a line of causation from their manufacturer, distribution, marketing to doctors and then on to patients that you would normally have to establish for product liability? no. they basically dodged around most product liability by using this, quote-unquote, public nuisance law, by saying this created a public nuisance. usually public nuisance relates to property paul: you re playing your music too loud. yeah. maybe pollution. but now what you re seeing is a.g.s have been trying to expand liability under public nuisance laws to including climate change because it s much easier to get a much bigger
dollar donors. small dollars has become the most important way to raise money. biden is not a particularly good small dollar donor. elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, they re much better. as time goes on, i think they might have a financial advantage over biden. paul: on the point about electability, though, let me push back again because you have electability in the polling that i ve seen, the democratic primary voters say that is their number one concern and, why, because they really, really, really don t like donald trump. so could that issue this time be the dominant issue and even though there s this energy on the left you talk about, maybe work in biden s favor? well, it s certainly working in his favor right now. he s a name. he has a known entity. and people think well, i think he could win. but the problem is, he s already starting to move left on some issues, like the hyde amendment, which a lot of pro choice people don t like their tax dollars