what you could call cruise missile diplomacy, a risky counter terror strategy favored if you remember by his former boss, president obama. bring in former military intelligence analyst, drone expert, bret belovich. bret, thank you for being here. your implications of this strike in afghanistan and how we use drones generally? we have long term mistakes with the strike. mistakes have long term consequences. when i was told when i conduct operations there is major responsible when you conduct all of this. if you have the ability to choose whether someone lives or dies you better be right. the team was completely wrong. the team that conducted this they will have to look for the criteria conducting these strikes in the future. the biden administration will have to look at what is known the signature strikes.
anna palmer, and fellow at the american enterprise institute. all right, jonah, obviously this is escalation. it is a continuation, but it is tense. and it may be for a good long time. the obama people will tell you that this is what you get when you get out of the deal. iran will be a bad actor again. it was a bad actor when it was under the deal too. my friend eli lake at bloomberg made this point, we used to criticize bill clinton for what we called cruise missile diplomacy. but the diplomacy was actually very effective in terms of boxing in iraq when it was a bad actor. boxing and other places when they were bad actors. i don t think anybody wants to go to war, but the united states has an enormous ability to project power and make life more difficult for iran then iran can make it for us and push them to
really bad. so the satisfying option in the case of syria is probably a very dangerous option. but at the same time, i think obama s got a real problem right now. that is the rhetoric and the crime, the gassing of his own people, the moral obscenity and how we hear this administration, including the president describe what happened, does not meet the military action he s talking about. it is a redux of cruise missile diplomacy, the kind of thing clinton did in the 1990s without weapons inspectors. i m saying there s a disconnect between the severity of what has just happened and the moral obscenity that just happened and what is actually being proposed militarily. so i think there s a couple parts to this. this is the worst chemical
regime change is not on the table right now. martin dempsey in a letter in july to senator levin, chairman of the senate armed services committee, said very clearly, if the regime collapses and there s no viable opposition, those chemical weapons could get into the hands of al qaeda and that s really bad. so the satisfying option in the case of syria is probably a very dangerous option. but at the same time, i think obama s got a real problem right now. that is the rhetoric and the crime, the gassing of his own people, the moral obscenity and how we hear this administration, including the president describe what happened, does not meet the military action he s talking about. it is a redux of cruise missile diplomacy, the kind of thing clinton did in the 1990s without weapons inspectors. i m saying there s a disconnect between the severity of what has just happened and the moral obscenity that just happened and what is actually being proposed militarily.
table right now. martin dempsey in a letter in july to senator levin, chairman of the senate armed services committee, said very clearly, if the regime collapses and there s no viable opposition, those chemical weapons could get into the hands of al qaeda and that s really bad. so the satisfying option in the case of syria is probably a very dangerous option. but at the same time, i think obama s got a real problem right now. that is the rhetoric and the crime, the gassing of his own people, the moral obscenity and how we hear this administration, including the president describe what happened, does not meet the military action he s talking about. it is a redux of cruise missile diplomacy, the kind of thing clinton did in the 1990s without weapons inspectors. i m saying there s a disconnect between the severity of what has just happened and the moral obscenity that just happened and what is actually being proposed militarily. so i think there s a couple parts to this. this is the wor