with iran on three fronts. obviously, hamas unleashed the attack on israel in october, killed americans, took american hostages, and are continuing to hold six hostage. there have been 150 attacks against american service members bases in iraq and syria. now, the 27 attacks against shipping in the red sea in defiance of american warning. i think we are in a proxy war against iran, and i think this is going to continue. marc, how important were these attacks last night? i think it is absolutely critical. we had to kind of regain this aura of deterrence, which, frankly, we were losing. you know, our enemies have to both respect and they have to fear us. i think it is absolutely critically important, not only for international shipping but also in, as jeremy just said, this proxy war that we re in with iran. look, you know, kudos to the intelligence community for the strikes yesterday in the sense of, you know, certainly, there was an all source intelligence soak. we ve been flying i
ten-spot move in the middle east was right. he has been criticizing the israeli government for some of these moves, but, ultimately, this gets resolved, in my view, with new israeli elections. until then, we ll have a really tough time in pressing israel to take steps for the day after. the israeli establishment knows they need to do it right now. former cia officer marc polymeropoulos. long-suffering red sox fan, marc. where is our pitching? we re not going to get any. still going to opening day, joe. we re still going to watch. still going to struggle. i got my tickets. all right. i ll see ya there. in a few minutes, we ll be joined by pentagon press secretary major general patrick ryder. willie, what do we got going on in the us of a? three days until the iowa caucuses. people are going to vote, believe it or not. a new poll puts former u.n.
the horizon. what is the day look like the day after the war ends? i know right now, and i completely understand, marc, that israelis don t want to talk about a two-state solution. i completely understand that. don t talk to us about making peace two months after 9/11, right? at the same time, we still have to conduct ourselves that way. that s what is going to happen. so we need if we re going to keep funding israel billions and billions of dollars every year, we need a partner over there. a partner who is not going to make their job harder. a partner who is not going to fund hamas, not going to tell qatar, fund hamas, not going to find out hamas has billions of dollars they re hiding across the world and say, oh, we ll let them continue to hide that money.
right now with the war in gaza. first, let s bring in former cia officer marc polymeropoulos, former national security and intelligence analyst, and former chief of staff at the pentagon, jeremy bash. i think the united states, the uk, the allies saw as the last straw another attack this year on tuesday. on shipping through the red sea, the united states and british forces intercepted some missiles and some drones that were headed to the ships and decided it was time for this retaliation. what do you see happening from here? yeah, i think the biden administration, willie, made the right call because they figured if the houthis are armed with anti-ship ballistic missiles, and if one hits a u.s. naval vessel and sailors are killed, they go down to the bottom of the red sea, then we re at a full-blown war with iran. it is not a war of our choosing, although, i would say that, in my view, we are in a proxy war
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