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Levin: Why Would We Need Troops? Many Reasons
Mark Levin, Fox News host and radio host. Fox News, Life, Liberty & Levin, March 29, 2026.
Fox News · posted 2026-03-29 · 2:06
Added to this site: September 27, 2026 · Transcribed: September 27, 2026
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What this video shows
Mark Levin hosts Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News and a nationally syndicated radio show, and served as chief of staff to the U.S. Attorney General in the Reagan administration. He is one of the loudest pro-war voices on American television. In this clip, posted by @Acyn on March 29, 2026, Levin takes on the promise the public had been hearing: "no troops on the ground." He says he does not remember that in any campaign speech, and then makes the case for sending Americans in: "But why would we need troops on the ground? Well, there's a lot of reasons, and we wouldn't need 300,000 of them."
His main reason is Iran's enriched uranium, the nuclear material that stays behind even after the bombing of Iran's nuclear sites. Levin says that if it cannot be destroyed, "we gotta get it," and he names who would go get it: "we're talking about the 82nd Airborne," the U.S. Army's rapid-deployment paratrooper division, along with special forces units from the various services. He stresses that this would be specialized units, not "regular army and infantry in by the hundreds of thousands," and says many of them have been trained "for moments like this."
In other words, a Fox News host was telling millions of viewers that American paratroopers and commandos should land on Iranian soil to seize the uranium, while the public line was still "no boots on the ground." A smaller force is still boots on the ground: American soldiers inside Iran, in the middle of a war.
Where this fits: this clip is one of the TV clips calling for American boots on the ground in Iran. For the full story, what the public was told next to what was happening, see American Soldiers on the Ground in Iran — Videos.
Transcript
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The president is, the president has to. People are bringing information to him, and he has to worry about all these things. Now, one other thing. Troops on the ground.
He said, No troops on the ground. I don't remember that in any campaign speech, either. But why would we need troops on the ground? Well, there's a lot of reasons, and we wouldn't need 300,000 of them.
It's this uranium, too. We've got to get the uranium. If it cannot be destroyed, if it cannot be altered, we gotta get it. For the reason I just said, you can make dirty bombs.
And over time, you can still make sophisticated missiles. So you need to get to the uranium. That's why I'm reading in the paper, we're talking about the 82nd Airborne. We're talking about these very special forces and the various military services and so forth.
He's not talking about sending regular army and infantry in by the hundreds of thousands. The men he's talking about, the units he's talking about, they are specialized. And you know what else? I remember from my days in the regular administration.
Many of them are trained for a moment like this. to try and secure, enriched uranium. Many have been trained for moments like this. I guess what I'm trying to say is, we're in good hands.
No, not with All State. But with President Trump, because he's a man with enormous intelligence, enormous common sense. He's not an ideologue. He doesn't run around with slogans.
He's Prudential. He looks the facts. He looks at the challenge, and he's dealing with it now. He might said, but he's negotiating a peace deal.
First of all, did you look at those 15 points that were in the media? You know what that was? That was unconditional surrender. Iranians apparently said no.
The president said, Okay, who's up next?
Last Updated: 2026-09-27