{"id":30573,"date":"2026-03-11T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/?p=30573"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:23:46","slug":"kol-the-war-in-iran-is-going-badly-guest-kelley-vlahos-ep-376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/kol-the-war-in-iran-is-going-badly-guest-kelley-vlahos-ep-376\/","title":{"rendered":"The War in Iran Is Going Badly | Guest: Kelley Vlahos | Ep 376"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After premising his 2024 campaign on the promise of no new wars, President Donald Trump is taking military action in Iran that has already cost over a thousand civilian lives. Matt Kibbe is joined by Kelley Vlahos, editor in chief of Responsible Statecraft and a senior adviser at the Quincy Institute, to discuss the confusing rationale for this war and the best-case scenario Americans can hope to see. The administration has succeeded in killing the ayatollah, only to replace him with his more radical son, so any pretense of liberating the Iranian people seems farcical. Moreover, there appears to be no strategic plan or exit strategy to avoid turning this war into an Iraq-style quagmire. The best we can hope for is that Trump declares victory and pulls out before more lives are lost, but even in that case the reversal of one of his key campaign promises is likely to cost the Republicans badly in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Kibbe on Liberty on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/kibbe-on-liberty\/id1452905037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5qdAKla1GhQVYTi7O7gHiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL36_JCmmBwZrrsXd0VIMJXHBSuWfUm57k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com\/s\/kibbe-on-liberty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Substack<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/get.blazetv.com\/kibbe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlazeTV<\/a>, or anywhere you listen to 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MSNBC\u2019s Keith Olbermann called Kibbe \u201cThe second worst person in the world.\u201d \u00a0 Dubbed \u201cthe scribe\u201d by the New York Daily News, Kibbe is the author of the #2 New York Times bestseller Don\u2019t Hurt People and Don\u2019t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (HarperCollins 2014), and Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America (HarperCollins 2012). He coauthored Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (HarperCollins 2010). Kibbe has appeared frequently on national television, including FOX News, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS. Before launching FreedomWorks, Kibbe served as a congressional Chief of Staff and House Budget Committee Associate. He was also Budget Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Senior Economist for the RNC under Lee Atwater. Kibbe did graduate work in economics at George Mason University and received his B.A. in economics from Grove City College. 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