The interview aired mid-conversation with Larry Johnson.
Hit hard tonight, tomorrow night, the night after, then escalate to Iran's grid and bridges unless Tehran negotiates.
On Kharg: "if we degrade them far enough, I would do that," though saying so would be foolish.
He also walked back the 20% toll, saying the Gulf will invest in America instead.
Larry answered with arithmetic.
Lockheed builds 56 precision strike missiles a year, not 560, and Pacific commanders guard their own Tomahawk stocks.
Meanwhile Iran's target list is ten bases it can hit nightly, while Washington's runs toward a thousand rebuildable launch sites.
The war can't be forever, he argues, because the munitions aren't.
His warning on the power-plant threat cut deepest: strike Iran's grid from Gulf soil, and Iran answers in kind, against countries where losing air conditioning in July means abandoning cities.
The quiet story: Israel's transport ministry barred additional US refueling tankers from Ben Gurion, drawing formal Centcom protests.
Larry's read: Tel Aviv knows a dead MOU puts those tankers on Iran's target list.
And a Reuters/Ipsos number that says everything: 79% of Americans now expect a prolonged war.
Only 37% approve of the strikes.
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