This is CBS, I am the world. I'm John Batchelor. I welcome John Bolton, former National

Security Advisor for the Trump administration,

former ambassador to the United Nations

for the Bush administration, writing most recently

at the Washington examiner about the attack on Israel, on Jerusalem, drone attack, ballistic missile attack by Iran within these

last hours and what is to be done.

Mr. Molden, very good evening to you and the remarks out of Israel are various, but it comes to the word retaliation.

And there is a spirit we're told, and this is a summary summary in the cabinet and in the population that we

must answer the the attack there will be more you have written very carefully

about what is to be done. First, how did we get here?

The attack, you write, is a consequence of not showing adequate deterrence.

How so, John?

Well, thanks for having me on again, John.

Good evening.

Look, from the beginning, the Biden administration has failed to see that Iran is the puppet master here behind the October 7

Hamas attack on Israel, the efforts of the hoodies to close the Red Sea to

international commerce, Hezbollah and its constant missile attacks on northern Israel and the Iraqi

Shia militia groups that have been attacking American military and

civilian personnel for a long time but particularly after October the 7th.

So if you don't have a strategic sense of who the enemy is and what the battlefield is, you can't

respond effectively, and we have not.

And in particular, in the past, I'd say,

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