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They tell me if I don't go to the army, I will go to the jail.

General Dan Cain, it was reported in The Washington Post recently, had expressed behind closed doors concerns about the dangers that would be presented towards American forces if they engage in a long duration military operation.

military operation directed towards Iran.

He was particularly concerned, according to this report, about American munitions running low, the munitions, the kinds of munitions, Patriot missiles, THAAD missiles that are used to defend against Iranian

ballistic missiles.

And therefore, it could become, if this takes time, if this is drawn out, it could lower the Americans' defenses against the kind of missiles that Iran might launch in retaliation.

Now, Donald Trump himself has come out and said this is false reporting, that Dan Cain is in favor or at least not opposed to a war with Iran, that he's providing his counsel, but that both Dan Cain and the president,

Don't want this to become a military operation, but they're prepared to do it if Iranians don't negotiate on their ballistic missile program and their nuclear program.

And that was one of his concerns that he expressed, according to this report, that allies would not cooperate with the United States, that Arab nations in particular would not allow the bases in the region to be used by American forces to launch strikes, that they wouldn't have overflight rights to go over the territory of these Arab nations, making it more difficult.

to strike into Iran.

And you have to remember, Iran is three times the size of Iraq.

It's a much bigger nation.

The targets that this is an extended campaign are spread out across the country.

They're more difficult to find.

The ballistic missile program, it would be difficult to

to totally demolish in a short-term operation similar to the one that the United States had during the Iran-Israel war last year, where it was a one-and-done strike on a nuclear facility.

This, it appears, by all indications, would be a much larger, wide-ranging operation.

It's interesting.

Last year, before the operation that I mentioned, striking the nuclear facilities, there was pretty significant opposition or at least opposition voiced by the MAGA movement, by key members of Donald Trump's coalition.

opposition to any kind of military operation targeting Iran, to the point where there were stories and reports about divisions within the White House and within the movement writ large.