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So we've got a little bit and I don't know what he's going to say. Last night what did he tweet last night?

All as well. Long story short, Iran's response to the removal of General Sulimani was to send a number of guided missiles into one of our bases in Iraq killing no one for reasons that we will get into with my clients,

military analysts for CBS News. Mike can experience the man of the United States Army and consultant and writer and thinker and somebody we always enjoy talking to. Mike, how are you sir?

Thank you. One of you guys great to be back with you. So first of all your reaction to the attack that took place late yesterday. What do you suppose Iran was thinking when they did what they did?

Yeah, all for internal consumption for the supreme leader to establish his legitimacy with the population that wanted to see a strike back. They wanted to do something quickly after the funeral had taken place.

This was an attack that could have been a lot worse. They could have gone after specifically Americans and Baghdad and real American military assets. They chose an air base that's well out the middle of desert halfway between Baghdad and the Syrian border which we're using right now for logistics to support those counterattacks.

Insurgency troops that are there. But it's really more of an attack on Iraq and the Ambar province against the Tunis that live there and then in the North and the Kurds in a repeal.

I think this was just Iran posturing trying to claim that they're striking back. I don't think they had any intention of hitting Americans or killing Americans. And I think we're going to get this off from them.

I think the president is going to power this whole thing down and we'll take it from here. If not all, they're going to continue to be a war with us. But this line of the standup has been drawn with strategic deterrence of decapitation. I think it's very solid.

I think that the president still has lots of tools. But we have to use them. I'm just curious. How did you react when you first heard the news? Did you assume that right off the bat or did you think holy crap they've lost their minds? Now we're in it.

Now actually I assume that first and I had a problem with a lot of anchors and people I was on television with that thought the other thing and they were trying me to get to go to World War Three.

I'm not going there until I see what happens on the ground. And I knew what that airbase was and there's nothing out there. There's a lot of desert that can hit. It's beginning very serious. There's nothing there.

So I said, yeah, I'm not going there until I find you know more proof. And so there's a lot of rest of judgment. I saw it and I tried to stay on the side of let's just wait and see what the battle damage assessment doesn't as we've seen now.

They've got tremendous capability. That's their A game. Their missile program is their A game. They're first decided a fly. They've been shot out of the sky instantly and they don't really have any ground troops. And so that's their A game. They played their A game. They played their A card. It's over now. Now they're hoping that the president is going to give them an offer. Let's see.

Mike Lyons on the line military analyst for CBS news. So Mike just isn't a side someday we ought to play you with a couple of beverages and talk about the state of the American media, which is just ridiculous, but my words not yours.

So I find it significant and also unreported that the the attack was in a a SUNY area of the country and not the Shiite area because the internal politics of Iraq right now is the Iranians have the Shiite.

Shiite population the Shiite population in more or less a stranglehold because Iraq is full of Iranian back militias with guns ready to enforce the Iathole as desires.

Right. There's some so it pipes and small arms that do right in the streets and it's exactly right. This is both that took place with the Iranian parliament.

You would think based on how it's been reported that it's overwhelming. U.S. forces are out. It's not the case. The SUNY didn't go for it. It had to have occurred to the North. It does show that the factions are fractured inside of Iraq. It's the shame all these years after Sudan being gone. All of this is generation, but the bottom line is the fault lines are still there.

You know pick your term to come home to ruse that's all taking place inside of Iraq right now and we're not sure if it's ever going to get resolved if they want to live peacefully like you know the Balkans or something or that's the model where we can kind of whack everybody up and figure out we're going to keep our boundaries.

But I don't think you're going to see U.S. troops there. Let me also say we don't have this big footprint of U.S. troops. A few thousand troops is nothing. And they're not there in any military formations. We have no tanks. We have no way of wasting war inside of Iraq right now. They're there helping Iraqi forces.

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