National Defense

Sebastian Gorka Says Anyone Who Thinks Iran Conflict Was Unjustified Is ‘Testicularly Challenged’

Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Deputy assistant to the President of the United States Sebastian Gorka defended the Iran war during a Wednesday press call, using colorful language to dismiss criticisms of the conflict.

Gorka called the previous wars led by Republican administrations in the Middle East “forever wars” in a press call on Wednesday. When the Daily Caller News Foundation asked Gorka how specifically the war in Iran was not a “forever war,” he called the belief that it was “a bad joke” and people who do not want to “deal” with the Iranian regime “testicularly challenged,” pushing forward the assertion that the war would remain a “limited air campaign.”

“They have been plotting to kill President [Donald] Trump, members of his cabinet, former military commanders, former members of the administration, the idea that after just one incident like the Beirut bombing or after one attempted plot against the lives of U.S. personnel here in the United States, we don’t deal with this regime means you are testicularly challenged,” Gorka said in his response to the DCNF.

“Let me just say that that is a low T [testosterone] approach to threat to the United States,” he emphasized.

At the same time, Gorka asserted that the Trump administration “is not a nation-building administration.”

“We are not here to liberate other nations … but we will not permit regimes to plot to kill Americans. Period. End of story,” he told reporters on the press call in response to the DCNF’s question.

The DCNF also asked Gorka if there was any concern regarding a refugee crisis as a result of this war. He said that there was “no fear of huge refugee problems.”

“The idea that you’re going to compare the invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq with hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and allies to a limited air campaign against the nation that should have been dealt with for the last 47 years is unreasonable, it’s a bad joke,” Gorka told reporters during the press call in response to a question from the DCNF. “You’re comparing a decapitation of the regime to wars that lasted for decades, in some cases, and cost the lives of 4000 American troops and cost us $7 trillion it’s just a bad joke.”

The current cost of the Iran war was estimated to be $25 billion by Department of War official Jules W. Hurst III during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on April 29.