Iran Will Keep Encouraging Attacks, Sees U.S. as Afraid to Hit Them Directly

On CNBC’s Monday broadcast of “Squawk Box,” NBC News military analyst Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.) said Iran “will probably continue to encourage its allies to attack as they have been doing,” adding that said they view the United States as passive. Directly hit Iran.

Co-host Becky Quick said, “Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has already said we should attack immediately. …Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) has said… It really raised the stakes: Anything short of responding to these attacks with devastating military retaliation would confirm that Joe Biden is a coward unfit to be commander in chief, he said. “Why do you think attacks will be more limited and counterattacks launched?”

Jacobs said, “Well, the United States is reluctant to engage in any attack, and when it does attack or counterattack, it is limited to what the administration deems to be proportionate. And the main reason for that is that it Washington’s perception is that anything above would escalate the war. Critics say Iran’s allies need no excuse to continue or escalate their attacks. , and perhaps rightly so. Iran is pretty well convinced, and probably right, that the United States would be reluctant to attack Iran directly. Currently, Iran is at war with the United States. and, as a result, will likely continue to encourage allies to attack in the current manner.However, critics argue that the United States needs to escalate its attacks, thereby escalating the war. But Joe Biden has a political problem. On the one hand, if he escalates the war, he will accept criticism; if he doesn’t, he will accept criticism. It will be extremely difficult to respond.”