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3 Martini Lunch

Slaughter in Syria, Mixed U.S. Signals on Hamas, Tucker Questions Iran Threat

3 Martini Lunch

Radio America

Politics, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg as they break down three major developments in the Middle East, from the slaughter of Christians and other minorities in Syria to the U.S. administration’s mixed messaging on Hamas, and Tucker Carlson trying to convince us that Iran should not be one of America's major concerns.

First, they react to the horrific sectarian violence erupting in Syria just days after Jim’s departure. Reports confirm that over a thousand Christians, Alawites, and Druze were killed by forces aligned with HTS—the Islamist group that toppled Assad and had pledged not to persecute minorities. Jim rejects the claim that Assad was a better protector for them while Greg stresses that HTS is proving to be just another radical faction wielding power through oppression.

Next, they analyze the Trump administration’s contradictory approach to Hamas. Just last week, Trump warned of death and destruction for the terror group if all hostages were not released. Yet by Sunday, his envoy was meeting directly with Hamas officials and even suggesting they might be “pretty nice guys.”

Finally, they sigh as Tucker Carlson suggests Fox News and others are trying to foment a war with Iran and that if you look at the number of Americans Iran has killed "on American soil," we have far bigger concerns in our own country. Jim and Greg reject Carlson's terms for judging Iran and do not want a war with Tehran. But they do stress the importance of keeping Iran in check as it reportedly nears deployable nuclear weapons.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the three martini lunch.

0:04.9

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

0:10.3

Three martinis coming up.

0:13.5

Well, I hate to tell you it's all bad martinis today, but it's all bad martinis.

0:17.9

And there's not really a lot of wiggle room on these, unless you want to throw in some crazy on a couple of them.

0:23.3

But it is for terrible NFL teams and their fans.

0:28.4

A very exciting day.

0:29.5

It's the start of free agency.

0:30.8

So that's probably the best news.

0:32.5

Also, NCAA tournament brackets come out in less than a week.

0:35.5

So there's some positive stuff going on.

0:37.7

It's just not what we're talking about today.

0:39.7

But here's a silver lining in our first one.

0:42.7

Jim Garrity got out of Syria just in time.

0:45.9

So he talked about being glad he was home on his first day back on Wednesday.

0:51.4

We talked about it a lot on the Friday special.

0:53.6

And if you haven't heard the Friday special, you really, really need to. But then over the weekend, we found

0:58.8

out that things have changed considerably just in the couple of days since Jim left. Newsweek

1:04.6

magazine, of all places, kind of getting a good summary of this. Syria is experiencing its deadliest

1:09.9

period since the ousting of longtime president

1:12.7

Bashar al-Assad three months ago as clashes have erupted between government forces and pro-Ala-Assad

1:18.4

fighters this week, leaving hundreds of civilians and fighters dead. This is according to the Syrian

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