What a potential Hegseth impeachment means for Iran War

This morning, talking about some updates in the war with Iran. This, of course, coming amid rumors of an impending impeachment that will be set against him by rival Democrats. Now, there is a lot going on in this situation, a lot to parse through. And it's lucky for us that we have Dr. Homan Sadri here. He's the educational director at the Information and Policy Analysis Center. Dr. Sadri, thank you, as always, for joining us. It's always such a pleasure. Thank you very much, Hayden. So as we're kind of looking at a lot of the things that are going on here with Hegseth, all of these rumors of impeachment, just kind of off the bat, what are the potential impeachment of Secretary of War Hegseth mean for the Iran war as a whole here? Well, as you know, Secretary Hicks said has been under a lot of pressure from the Democrats. Democrats, you know, were obviously the minority party. So they had their own, you know, complaints about him and the way he has conducted the war, the way the war has been, you know, going on. And, you know, some criticism here and there in terms of how it should have been going on. Secretary Hicks said it's not making the final decision. The final decision of war or peace goes back to the hands of our own president. And, of course, there were a number of factors that affected the decision of our president. Obviously, our ally in the region, Israel, has had something to do with it because, as you know, Prime Minister Netanyahu, he's a wonderful, loving person for leader of Israel. At the same time, he's focusing on the interest of his country, which sometimes goes along with ours. Sometimes it doesn't. He was able to convince the president this time to let's go ahead and do it and change the regime because he thought Iran was at a very weak point. But that has not happened the way it was. And then now Secretary Hegseth is basically getting to be under a lot of pressure. I'm not sure what's going to happen. And some of my sources, In Pentagon, they say that he might end up becoming the sacrificial lamb because the president has to, from January, he has to start working with, you know, Congress that, you know, the Democrats are the majority in both houses, no matter what. And he still has two more years to go. You know, he can't just sit on his hand and do nothing. You know, he's coming from business background. He's very task oriented. He likes things to be done. fast, and our system is not set up to do that. That's not the way founding fathers established our system. They, you know, decisions, they make a long time to, you know, be made, and then also to be implemented. And that was done by the founding father, just to make sure that every single, you know, interest group would have some kind of saying, so the decision would be to the benefit of the general public, as opposed to a particular group. So we are going to be looking Looking at a very interesting period of time between now And January, well, all these, you know, haggling between different groups and, you know, some kind of, you know, deals behind the scene that, of course, general public like us, we would not know about it until the last minute or when it's announced. Sure. And, you know, something that I find very interesting about this, Dr. Sadri, is the fact that this impeachment was introduced by a Republican. That was Thomas Massie. Eight articles, you know, alleging misconduct. This is a GOP-led effort that Democrats have backed, including Hakeem Jeffries. What do you make of that, the fact that this is being introduced by the GOP, who Pete Hegseth has traditionally kind of aligned himself with? Exactly. I'm so glad you said that, because people have a tendency to look at politics in a very, very clear black and white day and night. No, you know, Democrats versus Republicans. There were a number of members of the Republican Party who had their own reservation about Secretary Hegseth. It was not just, and it hasn't been just about the war. For example, the way he has been restructuring the entire, you know, Department of Defense or Department of War, as he likes to call it. So this has been very significant. Look at what he has done in terms of basically retiring a lot of the... Top generals, these are some of the most experienced officers, top officers we have had. It takes a long time to train those people to get their job done and to make sure that our institutions are working properly. It's a very, very different system from much of third world countries that you put a nice leader over there, things go well. You put some ineffective leader, things go down. We in the West, we focus on the quality of our institution to provide our policy with continuity. And as a superpower, we cannot afford just focusing on short-term, you know, issues here and there. So there are, yes, you are absolutely right, there are a number of Republicans who have not been happy with him. Dr. Sadri, as always, thank you so much for providing some insight into what exactly is going on. I know there have been a lot of questions from people. I've been seeing it on social media, wondering what kind of the impact of this would be should that impeachment go through, especially as it pertains to the Iran war. So thank you so much for providing us a little bit more insight into that. Thank you for inviting me.