doesn t play fair. they don t need to play fair either. they don t need to destroy their own. that s a popular view. there s a lot of fight in the room. but they need fight. they need fight. this is the thing that still intrigued me with the politics around trump and the media around trump. trump plays an asymmetrical game. he s going to come at you from there, from here, from anywhere corner, but everyone plays the straight line with him. everyone plays the game against him as if he s playing the game straight with them. i think if you switch it up to your point, i think if you engage trump asymmetrically and you begin to, okay, if that s the way you re going to do it, that s how we re going to come at you, it changes the dynamics in a way that forces trump to
narrowly described specific strike against the battery that took out that drone. that would be very limed. it would be on iran, going through iranian airspace, but it would be a legitimate symmetric response. you took out our drone, we re going to take out that element that took out that drone. we could up the element of sanctions. in other words, come at them a little bit more asymmetrically, we don t have to make this a tit for tat type of dance, but we could start to apply additional pressure on iran telling them with a very clear message we re not going to stand for this. you can t come after us, we re going to ratchet this up a little bit. all right, so those are the military basic pieces going on here. obviously you weigh in on everything else as you want. but, aaron, let me bring you in. what do you think iran wants by doing what it just did? you know, i think the supreme leader wants no peace, no negotiations on one hand, and no
and their reporting on the u.s. military attack preparation and the president s tweet in response leave the world a bit breathless tonight i want to speak 1st with iran analyst ben to lulu he is with the foundation of defense of democracy a think tank in washington he is joining us however from singapore where he is currently a very good evening sir is this a needless crisis. good evening to you it could be seen as a needless crisis but why is it was i think it s important to have the facts in proper place here it s needless because iran has engaged in a marked escalation that is actually quite different from the way iran prosecutes its foreign policy and national security strategy iran is in a asymmetrically strong country with conventionally weak country when it comes to military power so iran tends not to engage in direct confrontations iran s decision
this is very predictable. but they can t want us to come at them. obviously they understand the capabilities of the u.s. military. what s the plus minus for you in terms of if you were to do something back to them of what that could be or what it should be? a clear option on the table that is probably being discussed right now is a very narrow very narrowly described specific strike against the battery that took out that drone. that would be very limited. it would be on iran, going through iranian airspace, but it would be a legitimate symmetric response. you took out our drone, we re going to take out that element that took out that drone. we could up the ante in terms of sanctions. i don t know what that would look like. in other words, come at them a little bit more asymmetrically, we don t have to make this a tit for tat type of dance, but we could start to apply additional pressure on iran telling them with a very clear message we re not going to stand for this. this aircraft
and the reporting on the u.s. military attack preparation and the president s tweet in response leave the world a bit breathless tonight i want to speak 1st with iran analyst bent a little he is with the foundation of defense of democracy a think tank in washington he is joining us however from singapore where he is a currently a very good evening sir is this a needless crisis. good evening to you it could be seen as a needless crisis but why is it b. of this i think it s important to have the facts in proper place here it s needless because iran has engaged in a marked escalation that is actually quite different from the way iran prosecutes its foreign policy and national security strategy iran is in a asymmetrically strong country with conventionally weak country when it comes to military power so iran tends not to engage in direct confrontations iran s decision