Retired Admiral William McRaven said the president's team must draw on their expertise to provide Trump with a range of options to respond to the attacks on Saudi Arabia.
on Wednesday, McRaven said:"The president doesn't want to go to war in Iran. There is no doubt about it. He does not want to go to war in Iran. The Iranians certainly don't want to go to war with us. That would not end well with them."unintended consequences
"If you don't have a process and you just leave it up to the president or the national security adviser, you're probably not going to always get the best outcome," he warned."And the president is not a process guy. So again, this presents problems in how you're going to solve wickedly difficult national security issues."for how to respond, the retired admiral continued, drawing on vast U.S. experience of dealing with Iran.
McRaven also dismissed suggestions of a full-scale invasion of Iran, suggesting such a plan would be"two, three, four times more challenging than anything we did in Iraq. That would be, and I have no doubt that that is not, not being contemplated by anybody in the military."
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