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Wants to accomplish. and just a unilateral strike, even though it might be a proportional response to a shoot-down of a drone, where does it lead? and i think some of the military commanders were forcing that issue of saying, when you're about to use force and you don't know where it's going to take you, if it spins out of the control and you don't have an end state in mind, it's going to escalate very quickly. the quote from the guns of august, about what occurred in the first world war, was when a german general was asked, how did they get there? how did they stumble in the war? the general ...

There are effects that are in place. and we're evaluating what those look like. whatever the desired end state is. i can modify behavior even more. it is a negotiating technique if i use the military. absolutely the president owns this. he's the commander in chief. if he says start, we'll start. he gets input. if he says stop, we'll turn it off. >> admiral, i got a couple questions for you. you raise the fact the administration didn't say don't publish this. you were at a position at the state department to talk to the press when we were going to press with articles like this. when would you s...

Organization, not being tied to a strategy of exactly what it is we want iran to do other than to come to the table which is confusing to them. because they were already at the table with the iran nuclear deal. it's confusing. and many of us have said we are very concerned about a situation which will test the national security organization within the white house. this certainly could be it, because there are no good ongss on this one. it's very easy to stumble into a war. it's much hard tore get out of one, especially when you don't have a strategy or an end state. and i personally can't see ...

So weave options. >> let's play this out for a moment. if that were to be the response that the administration chooses, how does that help achieve the end goal of stopping iran from getting a nuclear weapon at all cost? would that not knowing the regime in iran, would that not simply motivate them to move more quickly with their uranium enrichment? >> well, their uranium enrichment is already accelerating, so i would say iran is going to do what it wants almost irrespective of what we do. i am not sure we've had a full discussion in terms of what the desired end state looks like relative to th...

And i am certain about it. i mean, that is an irgc speedboat we're looking at in that photograph. this is their main maritime as set, because they don't have big ships, and this is the thing they're capable of doing, and more capable now than when i was in the gulf and it certainly fits them. so, no, i have no doubt at all. >> but to phil's point about being burned by the iraq war, and we're hearing that from a lot of people around the world today, and to the point that the congressman from illinois just made, maybe there are some credibility issues because of the fact that many mthis administ...