Retired Lt. General H.R. McMaster said during an interview over the weekend that the Biden-Harris administration needed to step up to help Israel dismantle Iranian terrorism in the Middle East.
McMaster made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” while discussing Israel’s military operation late last week that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
“There already is a war between Israel and Iran,” he said. “And it’s a war that Iran has been waging for four-plus decades. Nasrallah, who was there at the beginning of Hezbollah, who was there when they killed 241 Marines in Beirut and began a campaign against not only who Nasrallah called the cancerous boil of Israel, but the great Satan of the United States.”
“I think Israel is taking the right approach to escalate against an enemy who has been able to escalate really on their own terms with impunity, and I think increasingly the United States has to act like we know what the return address is in Iran,” he continued. “Now is the time to double down on the pressure on Iran, to dry up the cashflow available.”
He said that there was already a “military role” that the U.S. needed to be filling in pushing back on Iran in the form of both airstrikes and boots on the ground.
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“All of this should be kind of on the table. And I think we should act like we know where those rockets are coming from,” he said. “The 150,000 rockets that Hezbollah has pointed at Israel. The 40,000 or so members of Iran’s proxy army in Syria. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hamas in the West Bank, what remains of Hamas in Gaza, those were all trained, equipped, supplied by Iran to create this ring of fire around Israel and to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews.”
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