A great talk by Dr. Yaron Brook, given in 2005, in which he discusses the origin of neoconservatives (“leftists who have been mugged by reality”) and how the implementation of their policies after 9/11 have been contrary to actual American interests. The hour long talk is followed by nearly 90 minutes of Q&A with Yaron and Dr. Onkar Ghate.

One quote from Yaron Brook in answering a question about Iran:

When you go into Iran, there are two option. When, If. You go in there and after you crush them, you either. Either there is this large pro western significant group that you can hand control over to and get out of there quickly. Or if there isn’t then I think the Iranians. We should provide the Iranians, make sure the Iranians have the infrastructure their philosophy deserves. In other word I think we need to bring them back to the stone age and leave. You destroy every piece of infrastructure that was built with western ingenuity and engineering and get out of there.