BRIAN: A FOX NEWS ALERT.
PRESIDENT TRUMP PUTTING IRAN
ON NOTICE AND GIVING THEM AN
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IS THIS A GOOD STRATEGY?
FORMER COMMANDERS DAVID
PERKINS COMING TO US FROM
ISRAEL.
FIRST OFF, GENERAL, THE
SERIES OF EVENTS OVER THE
LAST SEVEN WEEKS, WHAT DOES
IT SHOW YOU ABOUT THE STATE
OF IRAN?
>> I HAVE GOT TO TELL YOU
HAVING SPENT THIS WEEK HERE
IN THE REGION, THE
SANCTIONS, ESPECIALLY THE
NEW ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ARE
REALLY PUTTING A
STRANGLEHOLD ON IRAN, THE
OVERALL REDUCTION AND THE
PRICE OF OIL, IT'S REALLY
HITTING INTO THEIR RESOURCES
WHICH ATTACKS NOT ONLY IRAN
BUT THE ACTIVITIES THEY
CONDUCT IN GAZA, LEBANON,
SYRIA, THE WEST BANK, IT
REALLY BINDS THEIR HANDS
REGIONALLY.
BRIAN: YOU DON'T GET TO BE A
FOUR STAR GENERAL IN THE
ARMY WITHOUT ACCOUNTING THE
COOLEST AND CALMEST UNDER
PRESSURE.
SEEMS LIKE WE ARE BEING
TESTED BY THIS COUNTRY.
WHAT ELSE THE PROPER
RESPONSE YOU?
KNOW THE MIND SET OF THE
MIDDLE EAST INACTION IS
INTERPRETED OFTENTIMES AS
WEAKNESS.
>> EXACTLY.
AND I THINK THEY WOULD BE
MISTAKEN TO DETERMINE THAT
WE ARE NOT ACTING.
WE JUST HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE
DON'T REACT THE WAY THEY
WANT US TO.
BECAUSE, OBVIOUSLY, THEY
HAVE BEEN POKING US IN THE
EYE, VERY OVERTLY, THE
TANKERS, SHOOTING DOWNTOWN
DRONE, AND THEY PROBABLY
SUSPECT US TO DO SOMETHING
TACTICALLY RIGHT AWAY.
THEREFORE, IF THAT'S WHAT
THEY EXPECT, IT'S PROBABLY
NOT TO OUR ADVANTAGE.
I KNOW SOME OF YOUR PREVIOUS
SPEAKERS TALKED ABOUT
GETTING THE ALLIES TOGETHER.
GETTING OTHERS TO APPLY
PRESSURE.
MANY MORE COUNTRIES DEPEND
ON THE OIL THROUGH THE
STRAITS OF HORMUZ THAN DOES
THE U.S., SO WE CAN ACTUALLY
LEVERAGE THIS AND WHEN WE DO
REACT, IF WE DO REACT
KINETICALLY, WE HAVE GOT TO
HAVE SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH,
FIFTH ORDER THINGS READY TO
FOLLOW UP SO THAT WE ARE
ACTUALLY EXECUTING A
LONG-TERM STRATEGY NOT JUST
A TIT-FOR-TAT TACTIC.
BRIAN: GENERAL, I GIVE YOU
THE KEYS TO THE REACTION.
WHAT'S THE BEST REACTION
FROM WHAT YOU KNOW AND FROM
LAW FEEL IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
HOW SHOULD THE MIDDLE EAST
RESPOND?
>> YOU KNOW, WE HAVE GOT TO
MAKE SURE WE ARE NOT PLAYING
CHECKERS WITH THE IRANIANS.
THEY ARE GREAT AT CHECKERS.
YOU KNOW, CHANGE ONE PIECE
FOR ANOTHER.
WE HAVE GOT TO PLAY CHESS.
I THINK WE HAVE GOT TO
CONTINUALLY BOX THEM INTO A
CORNER.
SO I THINK KEEPING ALL THE
MILITARY OPTIONS ON THE
TABLE, THEY KNOW THAT WITH
THE DECISION OF THE
PRESIDENT A LOT OF THEIR
MILITARY RESOURCES CAN
DISAPPEAR.
THEY KNOW THAT WE ARE
APPLYING ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
AND THEY NEED TO KNOW WE
HAVE GOT OTHER THINGS WE CAN
DO AND THERE ARE OTHER WAYS
WE CAN WARN THEM SO THEY
KNOW THES INTO IS TIGHTENING
AROUND THEIR NECK.
BRIAN: YOU FOUGHT IN IRAQ.
THERE DURING THE THUNDER
RUN.
20 SECONDS.
DO THE IRANIANS HAVE
AMERICAN BLOOD ON THEIR
HANDS?
>> WITHOUT QUESTION.
THE MANY YEARS WE WERE IN
IRAQ SOME OF OUR MOST
DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS CAME
FROM THE IRANIANS.
THE IRANIAN INFLUENCES I
HAVE BEEN THIS WEEK IN THE
MID EAST.
THAT'S ALL ANYONE TALKS
ABOUT.
NON-ARAB COUNTRIES THEIR
MALIGNED INFLUENCE ALL OVER
THE REGION, HEZBOLLAH,
HAMAS, THE IRC -- IRGC QUDS
FORCES THEY HAVE A LOT OF
BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS.
I THAT'S WHY I THINK GETTING
FOLKS ON A COALITION SHOULD
BE ONE OF OUR PRIORITIES IT
WON'T THAT HARD IN MANY
WAYS.
BRIAN: OF COURSE, YOU ARE IN
THE RIGHT COUNTRY TO
