Ret. Major Gen. Randy Manner: ‘A Ground War in Iran Would Be Extremely Difficult … Every Day We Are Losing the Support of Our Allies’

MANNER: “So it’s extremely naive and quite frankly, a reflection of incompetence to to think that we can do a regime change, think about it in reverse. If all of a sudden our administration was wiped out in some manner, would we all of a sudden be defenseless or whatever? Of course not. We would have people who would fill in and be able to continue to operate the government in that same way. The Iranians are the same way, even though there are so many of their senior leaders have been killed. There are more standing in the wings. A ground war in Iran would be extremely difficult. I actually helped get out 100,000 Americans over a six month period from Iraq. We would need 2 or 3 times that many, if not more. And remember that every day that this goes on, we are losing the support of our allies and the use of the bases in the Middle East, from which we rely on heavily to be able to to, quite frankly, influence Iran and others to be able to in terms of our national security interests. So this is very disconcerting. And I think that the administration lacks the experience and the sophistication. Plus, of course, he’s surrounded by yes men. Rather than trying to say, what are the risks to the united”

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Ret. Major Gen. Randy Manner: ‘A Ground War in Iran Would Be Extremely Difficult … Every Day We Are Losing the Support of Our Allies’‘It’s extremely naive and quite frankly, a reflection of incompetence‘News & Politics,InternationalRUSH EXCERPT:MANNER: “So it’s extremely naive and quite frankly, a reflection of incompetence to to think that we can do a regime change, think about it in reverse. If all of a sudden our administration was wiped out in some manner, would we all of a sudden be defenseless or whatever? Of course not. We would have people who would fill in and be able to continue to operate the government in that same way. The Iranians are the same way, even though there are so many of their senior leaders have been killed. There are more standing in the wings. A ground war in Iran would be extremely difficult. I actually helped get out 100,000 Americans over a six month period from Iraq. We would need 2 or 3 times that many, if not more. And remember that every day that this goes on, we are losing the support of our allies and the use of the bases in the Middle East, from which we rely on heavily to be able to to, quite frankly, influence Iran and others to be able to in terms of our national security interests. So this is very disconcerting. And I think that the administration lacks the experience and the sophistication. Plus, of course, he’s surrounded by yes men. Rather than trying to say, what are the risks to the united”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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