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
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