Centracchio Discusses Iran's Test of a Ballistic Missile

EYEWITNESS NEWS ANALYST
LT. GENERAL REGINALD
CENTRACCHIO JOINS US IN
STUDIO. GENERAL--YOU KNOW
GENERAL FLYNN---HE SAID
TODAY "WE ARE OFFICALLY
PUTTING THEM ON
NOTICE"--WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN?
WELL YOU KNOW I'VE MET
GENERAL FLYNN SEVERAL
TIMES AND I CAN'T PUT WORDS
IN HIS MOUTH BUT I THINK WHAT
HE'S TALKING ABOUT IS
LOOKING AT THE ENTIRE RANGE
OF POSSIBILITIES AND WHAT
OPTIONS WE MIGHT HAVE.
STARTING WITH PERHAPS THE
REINSTALLMENT OF-OF
SANCTIONS, WHICH I DON'T
BELIEVE WORKED TO BEGIN
WITH, AND THIS IS A GOOD
EXAMPLE OF THAT UH TO THE
POINT OF YOU COULD USE
SOME-SOMEWHAT OF A
MILITARY ACTION YOU KNOW IF I
WERE ON ACTIVE DUTY AND
SOMEONE ASKED ME WHAT
WOULD THE OPTIONS BE,
MILITARILY, IT COULD BE
ANYTHING RANGING FROM
STOPPING THEM FROM
LAUNCHING IT, ACTUALLY
SHOOTING IT DOWN ONCE THEY
LAUNCHED THE MISSILE. UH
THAT WOULD CERTAINLY BE A
WAY OUT POSSIBILITY BUT
NEVERTHELESS THAT IS AN
OPTION.
NOW YOU'VE SAID FOR YEARS
THAT SANCTIONS MOST OF THE
TIME DO NOT WORK--SO WHY
DO WE BOTHER WITH THAT?
WELL I THINK ITS A-A PROBABLY
ONE OF THE, THE FIRST STEPS
YOU WOULD DO. MAYBE SOME
COUNTIRES YOU WOULD REACT
TO THAT. IRAN HAS
DEMONSTRATED IT DID IN THE
BEGINNING, BUT THEN WE
LIFTED THE SANCTIONS WENT
RIGHT BACK TO DEVELOPING
THE OFFENSIVE WEAPONS
SYSTEMS THAT THEY'RE
LOOKING AT.
ALRIGHT LET'S BREAK THIS
DOWN. THESE ARE NOT
DEFENSIVE MISSILES--THEY'RE
OFFENSIVE MISSILES--EXPLAIN
THE DIFFERENCE?
CORRECT. YOU KNOW AN
OFFENSIVE MISSILE MEANS
THAT YOU CAN DELIVER A
PAYLOAD TO A UH POTENTIAL
TARGET. IN THIS CASE,
ANYWHERE IN THE MID EAST
FROM IRAN. A DEFENSIVE
MISSILE MEANS THAT YOU CAN
SHOOT A MISSILE COMING IN AT
YOU, AND SHOOT IT DOWN
BEFORE IT HITS THE TARGET
WITHIN YOUR OWN COUNTRY.
THAT'S A DEFENSIVE MISSILE.
SO THE DIFFERENCE IS
OBVIOUSLY THERE-THERE
DEVELOPING AN OFFENSIVE
CAPABILITY.
ALRIGHT BOTTOM LINE
GENERAL, THIS WAS A FAILED
TEST--WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY
DO IT AGAIN?
ONCE AGAIN, YOU WOULD LOOK
AT THE OPTIONS, I'M NOT SURE
EXACTLY WHAT GENERAL
FLYNN WAS TALKING ABOUT
BUT THOSE ARE THE OPTIONS I
SUGGESTED, EITHER
REINSTALLING THE SANCTIONS,
OR PERHAPS SOMETHING
MORE SIGNIFICANT SUCH AS
SOME PHYSICAL ACTION AND
MILITARILY.
ALRIGHT GENERAL
CENTRACCHIO, THANK YOU

Centracchio Discusses Iran's Test of a Ballistic Missile

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