Ralph Peters: Iranians Convinced They Can Get Away with Anything Bec. of Nuke Deal

‘The problem with Obama is he walks the line then backs up’

PETERS: "It's a good move if he means it. Don't make a fist unless you're willing to throw a punch. And there is real danger in this, because the Iranians are convinced that they can get away with anything, that Obama will do nothing to jeopardize that nuke deal. Plus, Iranian revolutionary guard who were in this they just suffered a humiliation of Tikrit in Iraq where they couldn't deliver the goods but U.S. air power did. So the chances of Iran overplaying their hand and the Iranian miscalculation are actually very, very high. I want to know what restrictions our warships are under as far as defending themselves." 
O'REILLY: "Yeah, but they're not going to tell you that. They would tell the enemy that. But you  --"
PETERS: "My point, Bill, is leading from behind could turn into bleeding from behind."
O'REILLY: "But you've got to say, to be fair now, if the president of the United States is going to move warships off the coast of Yemen to block arms shipments from Iran, if he sees the little Iranian boat, toot, toot, coming up, he's going to stop and search. Why else would you put them there? And if he doesn't do that, every sailor on the boat's going to be e-mailing me and everybody else going, 'You know what? We just let that boat go in there with a bunch of arms.' So you've got to feel that he's going to do it."
PETERS: "No, I just don't know. That's the problem with Obama. He walks up to the line, and he backs down, at the last minute, when he could make a decisive step. So there is real danger that those Iranian warships, not just little boats, but Iranian warships will do something really stupid and we will reply inaptly. Anyway, I am just very concerned about this. Don't send our ships , don't send out ships there unless you mean to enforce a blockage. Mere presence isn't enough."
O'REILLY: "We're going to assume that if Iranian worships open fire that they will be sunk to the bottom of the sea."

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