All right, Trey, angst on that.
Thank you. What are the reverberations from this strike?
Let's ask former CIA station chief in Moscow and Fox
News contributor Dan Hoffman.
Your thoughts, Dan?
Well, this was a pretty extraordinary tactical success by the
Israelis.
It's worth noting that they spared the Iranian ambassador.
They used their intelligence to find and fix the location
of the IRGC commander for Lebanon and Syria
and they use their kinetic capability to finish him.
This operation is really important for Israel both to degrade
the IRG CS capabilities, but it's also how you deter
Iran because so much of the weapons that Iran is
sending to Hezbollah go right through Syria and and that's
how you do it. You know,
we're still not doing much more than than shooting down
drones from the Houthis.
I think we could take a page out of Israel's
book in terms of how to
deter Iran and degrade their capability in terms of their
ability to
to support their proxy terrorists.
Yeah. And Dan, the Iranian ambassador warning the response to
the air strike will be harsh.
So we'll be watching for where that goes next.
Meanwhile, we've heard FBI Director Christopher Wray sound the warning
over the terror threat from the southern border.
But now add in the Moscow massacre that ISIS K
has taken credit for and retired General Frank McKenzie is
worried.
An attack here on the homeland could be coming.
ISIS K in particular. But but ISIS in general has
a strong
desire to attack our homeland.
We should believe them when they say that
they're going to try to do it.
And I. So I think the threat is growing.
It it, it's begun to grow as soon as we
left Afghanistan and took pressure off ISIS K So I
think we should expect further attempts of this nature against
the United States as well as our partners and other
nations abroad.
I think this is inevitable.
Dan, do you agree with that?
I do. I've agreed with it since the day we
left Afghanistan.
Look, General Mackenzie's right. We've taken the pressure off of
ISIS K They enjoy ungoverned space,
the same sort of ungoverned space that Al Qaeda enjoyed
in Afghanistan before 911.
What concerns me is that they now have a demonstrated
external operations capability.
They've launched attacks in Iran and Turkey,
and now a mass casualty attack in Russia.
We're also in their crosshairs,
and they have every reason
to be looking at where we're most vulnerable.
And that's why I think the concerns about our southern
border are justified.
And take the the confluence of events right now with
Israel's counter offensive in Gaza,
which director Ray is also emphasized,
has proved to be a force multiplier for terrorists to
fundraise
and and disseminate propaganda, disinformation and attract followers.
So this is the time to be on high alert.
It reminds me of when our my former director at
CIA,
George Tenet, used to say the lights are blink and
red.
The question is what are we going to do about
it,
considering the threats, The warning on the threats is almost
consensus with our military community.
Do you see our U.S.
government taking this seriously enough,
Dan?
Well, I I think we need to do more.
I think the question is,
now that we've left Afghanistan,
we don't have the capability we once had to collect
intelligence and deliver kinetic strikes on ISIS,
K and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
I think this is a good time for the House
and Senate oversight to be to be looking at the
Biden administration and their plan for dealing with these increased
threats. We don't want to deal with them here in
the United States at the point of attack.
What we prefer to do is detect those threats way
out,
what we like to call left of boom
and then preempt them before any harm is caused.
But that job has become that much more difficult because
we're not there.
We're not in Afghanistan anymore,
so there has to be some plan going forward.
I'd like to hear what it is from the BIND
administration.
That's quite a warning from you as well.
Dan Hoffman on all of that for us.
Thank you.