Ret. Gen. McKenzie: Iran’s Attack on Israel Was as ‘Close to a Maximum Effort that They Could Generate’

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McKENZIE: “It was a maximum effort. Now the Iranians are going to backtrack and talk about moderation. There was nothing moderate about this attack, and I think John Kirby nailed it precisely when he was talking to you earlier about the nature and scope of the Iranian attack. It was indiscriminate and it was designed to cause casualties. So, we should just consider that as we take a look at it. Now, has deterrence been reset? I think the Israelis performed magnificently with our assistance and the assistance of other nations in the region, and including the United Kingdom. And so I think that now the Iranians have to sit back and consider what they considered their most important capability — their ballistic missiles, their drones, and their cruise missiles — have now been employed in a major combat test and, frankly, that test has failed. So, I think Israel this morning is now much stronger than they were yesterday, and Iran is relatively weaker than it was yesterday."