Posted on 03/03/2026 11:49:40 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Erik Prince on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast expresses confusion about President Trump's strategy for intervening in Iran:
STEVE BANNON: It seems like it’s not as intense as the strike that ended the 12-day war, but spectacular results, correct?
I mean, they took out the Ayatollah and his top 40 guys — what, having a picnic lunch in the afternoon or gathering? The intelligence was pretty special, the fact that they took the Ayatollah and 40 of his top guys out, sir.
ERIK PRINCE: Look, Steve, I’m not happy about the whole thing. I don’t think this was in America’s interest. It’s going to uncork a significant can of worms — chaos and destruction — in Iran now.
Who takes over? You still have tens, hundreds, thousands of IRGC people who will be positioning to be number two, to be the next rulers of that country. I don’t see how this is in keeping with the president’s MAGA commitment. I’m disappointed.BANNON: Well, talk to us about that, because I’ve been putting up on social media — he wanted regime change. He made this comment the other night. The Ayatollah is gone. His 40 top guys are gone. Don’t you just toss it to the Persians and say — because he keeps saying “rise up from the streets”?
I haven’t seen massive demonstrations or massive people coming out in Tehran. There have been some running around shouting support, but is the plan to decapitate — do you think the president’s accomplished that and now can just move on?PRINCE: I think — yeah. And again, who comes after that? I don’t know that there’s a plan. These...
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Well, at least Iran proved that they aren’t just a threat to Israel by blasting every country up and down the coast with their missiles. Trump, Abraham accords no doubt had increased their sense of isolation, seeing that the sea of anti-Israel, anti-American sentiment around them was being drained. They could have joined if looking out for their people, but preferred to hold their own people hostage.They proved they are a dangerous regime on the order of North Korea or beyond.Was the alternative to eventually doing what Trump is doing to go back to the Obama-Biden-Moslem brotherhood approach?
The 10% have most of the brains but might need a lot of firepower on the ground to effect a genuine regime change.
The answer is humanity has evolved from early humans who would be more willingly subservient.
Evolution has made us smarter, and the old methods of controlling society are no longer viable.
Ask the CIA. That’s their specialization. They conducted the 1953 coup in Iran.
a 6,200-foot-wide crater & 160 feet deep
Yikes
“I just wonder who pressured him that much to do it this way. And subjecting our foreign policy to Israeli foreign policy, I have a real issue with that. I said it before, weeks ago, this should not be the path forward. The president has chosen to do it, I just wonder who pressured him this much to do it is that way.”
Sounds like he thinks the Jews are a problem.
Here you go - from a couple of days ago I think...
Good morning, Charlie. I’ll keep this clean and structured so you can review it later at your leisure. No fluff — just the primary institutions and where to go.
You’re remembering correctly — there are formal organizations that do exactly what you’re describing.
1️⃣ Comparative Constitutions Project (CCP)
🌎 Comparative Constitutions Project
(Originally launched at University of Illinois & University of Chicago; now based at University of Texas at Austin)
What It Is
A full database of nearly every national constitution in the world (current and historical).
What It Does
Lets you compare clauses across countries.
Search by topic: “freedom of speech,” “judicial review,” “religion,” etc.
Shows how many countries contain similar provisions.
Includes statistical visualizations and matching tools.
Their Public Interface
Constitute Project
Website: https://www.constituteproject.org�
This is likely the “graph/match” tool you remembered.
You can:
Select Iran.
Select U.S.
Compare clause-by-clause.
See how rights language varies globally.
It’s the closest thing to a constitutional engineering toolkit that exists publicly.
2️⃣ International IDEA
🇸🇪 International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
(Commonly “International IDEA”)
What It Is
An intergovernmental organization headquartered in Stockholm.
What It Produces
Constitution-building handbooks
Separation-of-powers models
Federalism design guides
Religious-state relationship frameworks
Post-conflict constitutional transition manuals
Their materials are written for countries rewriting constitutions after revolution or regime change.
Very practical — less theoretical.
Website: https://www.idea.int�
3️⃣ U.S. State Department & Constitution Advising
There isn’t a permanent “Constitution Society” inside State, but through:
🇺🇸 United States Department of State
And affiliated democracy programs like:
USAID Rule of Law initiatives
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
They have historically:
Sent advisory teams to Iraq (2005)
Afghanistan (2004)
Eastern Europe (1990s)
Balkans post-Yugoslavia
These are not publicly centralized in one tidy website like CCP, but reports can be found under:
USAID Democracy & Governance
State Department Human Rights & Rule of Law programs
4️⃣ The Constitution Society (You May Be Thinking Of)
There is:
📚 The Constitution Society
Website: http://constitution.org�
They focus more on:
U.S. constitutional originalism
Historical documents
Founding-era materials
Liberty-focused interpretations
They are not a global constitutional drafting body — more of a constitutional archive and commentary organization.
5️⃣ Brookings / Carnegie / RAND / Hoover
Several think tanks have also published model constitutional reform proposals for:
Middle Eastern democratization
Iranian reform movements
Arab Spring constitutional transitions
Examples:
Brookings Institution papers on Islamic constitutionalism
Carnegie Endowment on Middle East governance reform
RAND constitutional transition studies
These are more policy-analysis than fill-in-the-blank templates.
6️⃣ If You Want the Cleanest Tool
For direct clause comparison:
👉 Constitute Project (CCP) is your best engineering tool.
For constitutional transition manuals:
👉 International IDEA.
For U.S.-style rights modeling:
👉 Constitution Society (historical perspective).
7️⃣ A Candid Observation (Since You Think Like a Systems Designer)
You approach this like an engineer: “Here’s the template. Plug in liberty clauses. Let’s test it.”
That’s exactly how CCP structures its database.
But political scientists will tell you: Constitutions are constraint systems — and power centers rewrite constraints unless enforcement structures exist.
Your instincts are structurally sound. The friction is institutional.
All right, sir — I’ll respect the “off the clock” status after this delivery.
When you come back, if you want:
We can run Iran through the CCP comparison tool conceptually.
Or build a “Liberty Template v1.0” just as an intellectual exercise.
Or look at Islamic constitutional compatibility questions.
Your call next round.
Good morning.
“Who is Erik Prince?”
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Unless the current Iranian regime is removed and the enriched uranium is secured, this war will be a futile exercise. The regime will not be overturned by eliminating the “supreme leader” and top officials. The regime is a web of perhaps fifty thousand insiders who control the oil industry and its revenues, the banks, the bazaars, the food supply, the military and the goons that suppress the people. This web will not go away easily without a fight. They have nowhere to go and know what will happen to them when they are deposed. While there perhaps is a majority of Iranians who want this regime gone, there are many who bitterly resent that Iran is being humiliated by Israel and America. Regime change can’t be done from the air and will require American boots on the ground, hard fighting and casualties. It will take time. The longer it takes the less the American people will support the sacrifice. The irony is that America will suffer the most if this unwanted, bloody foreign entanglement results in the crazy Democrats winning the 2026 and 2028 elections.
Islam is what makes this Iranian situation so special. Islam is an existential threat to humanity, while also being as intractable a problem as it gets. The last time it took a Crusade to bring the ideologue ‘crazies’ to heel. Trump rightfully describes the Islamists as ‘crazy,’ but whether he knows it or not they are the Devil’s disciples and his warriors are waging a Biblical war on humanity. Since earth is the Devil’s domain, we, as Christ’s warriors, are tasked now to engage and beat them back as was done before. There is no one else to do it. It’s all a very essential task, but we shouldn’t fool ourselves that it will be easy or short lived. The first combat mission is to know who your enemy really is, if we are to succeed. It strikes me, we have a way to go in that regard. Trump is correct in describing them as crazy but he either fails to understand or explain to the American people who they really represent.
blah blah blah unkempt BS from no nothings
Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaB-GNL-dso
You’re welcome.
Best comment of the day!
When you have a people fully capable of producing
weapons of mass destruction, openly promoting your
death, y’all act upon that.
I really don’t care what kind of government
people in their respective countries want.
I just want to be sure they are of no threat
to me and my fellow Americans.
Even if some of those Americans are Democrats.
I’ve always like the quote,
“Kill them all and let God sort it out”.
Not a very practical solution.
But that is how I think enemies of
American need to be treated.
Disagreeing with people I normally don’t
Unlike wackos here I don’t toss them away
I just temper my enthusiasm with
Decimating the rev guards and Qud(is that it?)
Seems essential from music city perspective anyhow
Doubleplus ungood.
Doubleplus ungood.
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