Name: Why is America Getting Involved in Another Foreign War?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why is America Getting Involved in Another Foreign War?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why is America Getting Involved in Another Foreign War?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-21. Transcript available.

Well, let's just start with Iran or Iran. People say it differently, but do you
think we're headed into World War III here? What do you think is going on?
I'm really concerned. I'm fearful. We have a possibility where we're going to
blunder into another war in the Middle East. And just today, actually, to make
some news, Thomas Massey, who is a principled Republican, and myself introduced
a War Powers Resolution saying that the president should not get into a war
with Iran without coming to Congress.
You know, the president, to his credit, ran against the war in Iraq. He ran
saying, I don't want any wars. And the reality is that if we strike Iran, they
start hitting us back and hitting our troops in the Middle East, terrorist
activity. That's going to cost this country a lot of money that should be being
spent here at home. It's going to mean people could die who are serving the
country.
Oh, yeah. Well, let's look at the bill you guys were thinking about. What is it
called?
It's called the War Powers Resolution to Stop a War in Iran, which basically
says before the president does anything to go into war with Iran, he's got to
get a vote in Congress.
And how long does that take, though, like usually to get a vote in Congress? Is
there a certain period of time? Can they do it in 24 hours? It takes weeks or
what?
They could. It's the decision of the Speaker of the House when he can bring it.
He has to bring it within 15 days.
But what we want is today. But by the way, you know, there are a lot of Trump
supporters who are telling him, don't go into this war.
Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Oh, Dave Smith was talking about it. He's a political. He's a comedian who also
talks a lot about politics, you know.
Oh, I think it's this is a horrible idea, you know.
You know, and yeah, people say, well, you don't know a ton about the Middle
East.
I'm like, that's fine. I don't want people I know, my friends getting called up.
I don't want the children of my friends getting called over to die.
I don't even understand how it's an option.
The only reason I even kind of want it to be possible is to give is that if
Israel like goes to war with Iran,
then it'll at least stop killing Palestinian people for a day or two. Right.
You know what I'm saying? Like that's like my it's like at least point the guns
that way.
You know, kind of that's where some of my thoughts are.
Well, you've been such a courageous voice on on Gaza.
I mean, you look at what's going on there. Right.
Fifty five thousand people killed.
Now, Israel says some terrorists and they're right.
Some terrorists, but most of them women and children.
Yeah. You've got one hundred and thirty thousand people injured.
You've got over six hundred thousand kids who are not in school there.
You've got the entire population of Gaza being forced.
Into a corner, southern corner of Gaza.
And then you've got over four hundred thousand people who are starving, who don't
have enough food to live a decent life.
Yeah. And the saddest part, I feel like, is you see this and you're like,
somebody should come help them.
That's my first thought a lot of times.
And then the saddest thought for me after that is we should come.
Like it feels like America is the group that would go to help that situation.
Usually that's we're the good guys. Right.
I mean, we were the good guys in World War Two.
We saved the world from Nazism.
We were the good guys in the Cold War.
We stood up the Soviet Union.
People want to think that we are the good guys.
Why are we helping Netanyahu in the killing of children, women and so many
Palestinian civilians?
Now, look, Israel was hard hit October 7th.
I'm sure, like many people, you thought that was horrific, the October 7th
attack.
Oh, yeah.
And neither of us have any sympathy for Hamas.
They're a terrorist group.
But what happened is I supported initially Israel saying, go get those
terrorists who committed those horrific attacks on October 7th.
But by within three months, they had destroyed a lot of Hamas.
What now is happening over two years later, they're still going and bombing.
And they're bombing because Ben Gavir and Smoltlidge, two of the people in Netanyahu's
cabinet, are saying, don't stop the war.
Even though they know that they can't, you can't bomb and eradicate Hamas.
They haven't been able to do it.
And what's the only thing that's happening is that civilians are getting killed.
And Israel actually is becoming less popular in that region.
I mean, I was in Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
They're losing support.
Yeah.
So why is Netanyahu trying to drag us into it?
What do you think that relationship is like between him and Donald Trump?
So I think Donald Trump actually initially stood up to Netanyahu because he
wanted to bring this war to a close.
And he didn't want to get dragged in initially to a war in Iran.
I mean, you know what Trump's courage was while he became president in 2016?
Do you remember the Republican stage?
And they all asked, are you for the Iraq war?
And Jeb Bush, who was George Bush's brother, wasn't willing to say that his
brother made a mistake.
Oh, yeah.
He's a little oil bunny.
You know, and Donald Trump, to his credit, stood up on a Republican stage and
said the Iraq war was a disaster.
I think that's how he became president.
And he ran saying, I want to be a president who ends these wars.
I really believe that's what he thought at the time.
Oh, well, sure.
Well, I think recently, you know, we're doing okay without the notes so far,
huh?
You're doing great.
Okay, thanks.
I wish people had more common sense like you than the people who are making
this foreign policy stuff.
Actually, my recommendation is that before Donald Trump makes a decision, he
needs to have a conversation with you.
Oh, God.
No, well, to remind him, because, you know, I watched your actually clip with
him during the presidential campaign.
And I said, you made him the most human that I've actually seen him.
I mean, your conversation with him about his brother and alcoholism, and then
he asks you, what was it like for you to have cocaine and your addiction?
And I thought, well, this is like him having a normal conversation.
Yeah, felt pretty normal.
And so, you know, but I think, do you know anyone, Theo, in your life who's
like, yeah, we should go out and go to war with Iran?
Like any of the folks you talk to?
Nobody, nobody, even like, even like hardhead, you know, like even guys who,
like Navy, former Navy SEAL, no, none of them, nobody is saying yes.
And I felt like the biggest thing that's, I mean, there's so many things right
now, and it's like that I feel like in the world that are kind of stressing
people and making people nervous.
But one of the things is, I felt like it was supposed to be America first.
Like we're focusing on like, what are we doing to get things back into America,
right?
To like, increase like the purpose of being an American, to refill like our
hearts with blood and like, and, and, and, and make us feel something again
here.
And make us be excited about being an American, right?
Yeah.
And I felt like that was what a lot of the energy was for.
And then now that we're caught up here and it feels like we are just working
for Israel.
I think to a lot of people, it's, I don't know, you just really start to feel
very disillusioned pretty quickly.
And, and I don't mean disillusioned in people.
I don't mean disillusioned in like the human beings, but this disillusioned in
our leaders, right?
You start to feel like, I don't know, at one point, neither one of these
parties is helping us.
Well, they both seem like parties that have gotten us into war.
I mean, $6 trillion had cost us into Iraq and Afghanistan, and we need now an
anti-war movement in this country.
And I don't think it has to be Democrat or Republican.
I think Americans are sick of war.
And thank you, man, for talking about this stuff with me, man.
It even helps us like, one thing I noticed, even we spoke on the phone the
other night, man.
And it just like, after I got on the phone with you, I felt a little better.
I was like, at least I have somebody to talk about this with.
Dude, yesterday I'm, I'm leaving this restaurant and a guy comes up to me.
He's missing a tooth or he was missing one.
And he was like, hey man, thanks for speaking up about Palestine stuff.
And I was like, I said, well, I don't, honestly, I don't know a ton about it.
It's just kind of how I feel.
And he goes, well, I think a lot of people are just afraid to speak up.
They're afraid if they speak against Israel, that they're going to be labeled
an anti-Semite.
And I was like, oh no.
I said, I understand that, but I think that's just a verbal trap.
You know, I'd said, you can have, like, I have tons of Jewish friends that I
talk to every day.
And, and I don't think what Yetanyahu is doing is good.
But anyway, man.
Don't undersell yourself.
You have more common sense and your values than 90% of the foreign policy blob
that has gotten us
into all these wars and that has compromised our humanity.
There's a reason the founders wanted Congress to be making decisions about war
and peace.
They trusted the American people, right?
Like the kings of the past when the founders were there, they would just do
wars for their
own glory.
And the American people were really, the founders were really suspicious of
that.
And they, so they said, you know what?
We actually trust the farmers and the people in factories and ordinary
Americans not to
get us into all this stuff.
And they trusted people like you, Theo.
And the problem is that your voice has gotten out of Washington and, and, and
not, uh, central
to it.
But now we've got all these podcasts and they can't ignore you.
Yeah.
So good for you to try to take back citizen voices.
That's what this country was supposed to be.
Yeah.
Thank you.