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00:00:22Hundreds of flights out of Saudi Arabia's capital are being
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00:03:01Barely two months old, the Mecca Alliance is facing its first
00:03:04test. Hoothi attacks against Saudi Arabia have triggered collective
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00:03:12of Could the crisis in Yemen turn the alliance into the new force in Middle East
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00:03:37Hello and welcome to Straight Talk, I'm Yusuf arm. For decades, the U.S.
00:03:41has been the dominant security power in the Middle East, but its war with
00:03:45Iran is challenging that order, and the fallout is already taking
00:03:49shape. Two months ago, Turkia, Saudi Arabia and
00:03:52Pakistan signed new defense pact in Mecca. Under the
00:03:56agreement, attack on one member is considered attack on
00:04:00all that commitment is being tested for the first time, the
00:04:04trigger has come in Yemen. Yemen's ansarulah huti
00:04:08fighters have stepped up attacks on the kingdom, prompting the alliance to
00:04:11activate its collective defense measures. The Iran-back group
00:04:15controls much of northern Yemen and has launched missiles and drones
00:04:19at targets across Saudi Arabia, from airports and military
00:04:23sights in the south to oil infrastructure further north. Turkey
00:04:27is providing Riad with military equipment. and
00:04:30of technical support. The escalation comes as the regions already facing
00:04:34multiple conflicts. The US and Israel are at war with
00:04:38Iran, the straight of Hormus remains effectively closed,
00:04:41and
00:04:42of tensions between Turkey and Israel are rising. So as conflict
00:04:46reshapes the region, could the Mecca Alliance signal a fundamental shift
00:04:50of in who provides security in the
00:04:51of Middle East? Joining me now from
00:04:55Virginia USA is Douglas McGregor, he's a retired US
00:04:59colonel. combat veteran, a former senior advisor to the US
00:05:03secretary of defense and author. Colonel, great to have
00:05:07you on the show. I mean, obviously lot's been happening. I
00:05:11know you're closely following. everything in the region, and I mean, I
00:05:14don't want to look back, I want to look forward in our time together, and
00:05:18if we look at the war right now in Iran, where in the
00:05:22timeline are we, are we near the beginning, the middle, the
00:05:25end, and is the US closer to peace or a ground
00:05:29invasion, if those were the two ends the spectrum? Well, I think we should
00:05:33address this idea of a ground invasion right up
00:05:35front, uh, we really don't have an army capable of
00:05:39invading Iran, I think that needs to be understood. "the United
00:05:43States army is rather small, it's a fraction of its
00:05:47former self, we simply don't have the depth in terms of
00:05:51soldiers, equipment, and it's very difficult to move those
00:05:55forces right now into the region, so I i don't think we're talking
00:05:58about a ground invasion, what you might see at the most in
00:06:02the future is the use of potentially marine or
00:06:06airborne forces to sease islands, one or
00:06:10two in the Persian Gulf or..." perhaps a toe hold on
00:06:14the on the Iranian state, in other words,
00:06:18chabahar, perhaps something like that,
00:06:22but but no more. mean, the idea of flying into Iran
00:06:25in search of enriched uranium, i think has been
00:06:29tried and largely dropped, so you're talking about very, very
00:06:33limited use of airborne and amphibious
00:06:37infantry, and potentially some special ops, not much
00:06:40more. now as far as "where are we in this
00:06:44thing? that's, it's very hazardous to guess,
00:06:48because the president has made it clear as recently is
00:06:51today, that he's going to stay with us as long as
00:06:54it takes. he he's also begun
00:06:58emply that he may direct operations to begin
00:07:01sooner than the end of october. much depends on
00:07:05events in the gulf, but i think the Iranians have recently
00:07:09demonstrated that they actually control access
00:07:12to the person." gulf, they struck several ships that tried to slip
00:07:16through, and I think that's put the lie, so to say to
00:07:19the claims that President Trump has made, that the place is under our
00:07:23control, and that nothing comes in or goes out without without us
00:07:26and moreover, lots of oil is escaping, that's
00:07:30simply not true, so at this point
00:07:34it's hard to tell, we have some constraints on
00:07:37us, we're constrained by the availability of munitions and the
00:07:41production. missiles and rockets and so forth, and we're
00:07:45also confronting very serious financial
00:07:48crisis. how that will play out is anybody's guess,
00:07:51but we've never confronted this kind of
00:07:55national sovereign debt before, and we have an enormous problem
00:07:59with our national credibility. nobody wants to buy our
00:08:03debt, that's why the bond yields are rising and as they
00:08:06rise and inflation rises, it becomes that much more difficult for us
00:08:10to service the deb. so it's hard for me to imagine this
00:08:14dragging on for months into the future, but
00:08:18there is no end in sight at this point, and we are by no
00:08:22means at the end the conflict. let's let's leave it at that at this
00:08:25stage. there it, it went from the four days to the four weeks,
00:08:29to the four months, to the forever, basically. yes,
00:08:33mean, your lack of uncertainty regarding where in the
00:08:37timeline we are, what type of operation could be launched, is that
00:08:41stemming from they're not being clearcut objective,
00:08:44being message to the American public,
00:08:48because I mean if there's no objective or no one knows exactly
00:08:52what the objective is, I guess for someone who's been in many rooms where
00:08:56these types of decisions are made like yourself, it's hard to understand what comes
00:09:00next, well there is no coherent strategic
00:09:03framework for the operation, I've never seen any
00:09:07explicit strategic
00:09:10goal that... "we could put
00:09:13our, put on the wall and say, this is where we want to
00:09:17go, this is how long it's going to take, and this is what has to
00:09:20happen before we stop, and to be quite frank, the
00:09:24entire war is an Israeli war, the United States has
00:09:28no strategic interest in the destruction of Iran, never
00:09:31has, and the notion that now we have to continue
00:09:35to attack Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapon
00:09:39seems ludicrous, foolish, because..." "there is really
00:09:43nothing to stop the Iranians from developing nuclear weapon except their decision
00:09:47not to do so, and on the other hand, our goal
00:09:51has changed, I guess, our objective, if you want to call it that, has moved from
00:09:54simply destroying the regime to destroying whatever military
00:09:58capabilities exist, that hasn't worked very well because
00:10:02the underground missile cities, which are extremely difficult to reach, they're spread
00:10:06out across the country, widely dispersed, we haven't been
00:10:10able to utterly destroy command. control, and
00:10:14we've discovered that if you kill one set of leaders, you get
00:10:18new set of leaders, not that that's really news, I mean that's been
00:10:21everyone's experience throughout history, destroy the
00:10:25con, you get new con, if you kill the king, you get new king. much more
00:10:29hard, why people fail to, why people fail to realize that is is
00:10:33incredibly stupid to me, so I don't think that's it
00:10:37anymore, I think now we're looking at find whatever capabilities you
00:10:41think may be there and destroy them, including uh
00:10:44nuclear enrichment capabilities if they can find them, and then
00:10:48I think they just want induce the disintegration and failure
00:10:52the Iranian state, so basically just... degradation
00:10:56and uh scorched earth type of policy, what what's the Middle
00:11:00East going to look like after this war is over? I mean,
00:11:03we've heard the word post-American Middle East, will it be a post-American Middle
00:11:07East, will that be a quick exit? will it be a
00:11:11gradual drawdown, will the bases uh throughout the Gulf be
00:11:15rebuilt? I mean a lot of questions from gulf
00:11:18countries who are who are concerned for their security futures
00:11:22rightfully? well, we've demonstrated pretty... exclusively that we
00:11:25cannot protect any the countries in the middle east, we can't
00:11:29protect the the gulf statelets, we can't protect
00:11:33Saudi Arabia, and I don't think we can protect Israel, the
00:11:37Israelis of course are a little more robust, and we have
00:11:41invested more heavily there, particularly in terms of missile
00:11:44defense, but it's
00:11:47not a long-term solution, and that's the key to this whole
00:11:50thing. There's something that everybody that lives in the region needs
00:11:54to understand. "we are not permanent party
00:11:58in the region, that is, we don't live in the Middle East, we don't live in
00:12:01Asia, we don't live in Europe, we are preeminently a
00:12:05maritime and aerospace power, when we move into
00:12:09area, it's inevitably temporary, we're not
00:12:12permanently there, people look back on the last 80 years in Europe or the Middle
00:12:16East or elsewhere, and they seem to think this is a permanent condition,
00:12:20it isn't, so it's not a question of will we..."
00:12:25ultimately withdraw, that's an absolute certainty. The
00:12:28question is how we do it, how quickly, how suddenly? We depend
00:12:32heavily on air and naval power, and that's what you're seeing right now. You're trying to
00:12:36wage war against continental power of
00:12:3993 million people. The place is almost the size of western
00:12:43Europe, two and a half times the size of Texas. It's
00:12:47surrounded by mountains that turn most the northern
00:12:51part the country into a fortress and into the south you have impassible.
00:12:56what a terrible place to fight, so then the next is you, and I got
00:12:59to answer this question for you, what does this all look like when it's over, well the first thing
00:13:03I think we can say with almost complete certainty is
00:13:07that the legacy of world war 1, and we're talking
00:13:11about pyco, that's finished, it's
00:13:15over, it's gone, when you look at the map the middle
00:13:19east, you have three long-term
00:13:22national state entities. "these are almost
00:13:26civilizational. who are they? well, one is Persia,
00:13:30we called Iran, but it's still Persia. the other
00:13:33is Turkia, and that has the legacy the
00:13:37Ottoman empire. that again is another civilizational state with
00:13:40its with its own brand of civilization. and then
00:13:44finally you have Egypt. well, what lies between
00:13:48these states and countries? essentially
00:13:51region that has been molded by foreign..."
00:13:55powers, Great Britain, France, the United States,
00:13:59those old borders are going to vanish, most of those structures will be
00:14:02gone, and it will be up to the three powers that I just
00:14:06mentioned, primarily, I would argue, Turkey and
00:14:10Iran to decide what
00:14:11the rest of it looks like, and I hope that when that time comes, that
00:14:15those two powers will be smart enough to act
00:14:19intelligently and swiftly to resolve as many differences
00:14:23as possible and to create new stability. because we will be gone.
00:14:27now the question is, and it's on everybody's mind, what happens to
00:14:31Israel? well, right now, the Israeli leadership has turned
00:14:35this war into an all or nothing proposition, it's do
00:14:38or die for the Israeli leadership, which i think is terrible
00:14:42mistake, because it doesn't leave much room for Israel to
00:14:46exist. if they insist on these
00:14:49genocidal impulses and a plan that they
00:14:53think they can employ us to kill. virtually all their enemies in the
00:14:56region, they're going to fail, and it will be very hard for
00:15:00Israel to continue to exist. on the other hand, if they were to
00:15:03have a sweeping change in government
00:15:07with new leadership that is willing to see things
00:15:11differently and live in the region as a neighbor,
00:15:15that could be changed, but right now, much as your foreign
00:15:18minister said, i think within the last 24 hours and i think he's
00:15:22correct, he said he sees no evidence. that the election in
00:15:26Israel is going to change anything, certainly nothing in terms of foreign and
00:15:29defense policy, and I think he's correct, it looks
00:15:33like maybe route A versus route B, but...
00:15:38X is the final destination still uh regarding the different
00:15:41Israeli candidates, but you painted a very interesting
00:15:45and pessimistic picture for us in the region here. I mean,
00:15:49no US presence, obviously a brand new security order, the
00:15:53potential for reorganization of borders, so that looks like
00:15:57very chaotic transition period. I mean, when
00:16:01there's these types of massive voids created in the middle east,
00:16:04obviously there's a lot of opportunists in the... region a lot of non-state
00:16:08actors who have always tried to fill in these types of
00:16:11voids. i want to ask you what your thoughts about the mechca alliance
00:16:15are the alliance between Turkia, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
00:16:19it was formed almost two months ago to the day, and
00:16:22I believe this, in the next coming three to four days it'll officially be
00:16:26ratified by the parliament, so it'll officially come to
00:16:30existence. can that be something that at least fills
00:16:34majority the void or is that still along?
00:17:07the old dynamics, that's why great powers like
00:17:11Turkia or Persia and potentially Egypt,
00:17:14although not in an aggressive way, are going to have influence that
00:17:18they once
00:17:20pre previously had. I i am not as pessimistic as
00:17:23you. my view is that when this status quo
00:17:27essentially vanishes, you will have
00:17:31the opportunity to build new things, but those new things
00:17:35will rest on old foundations, which make turn out to be more
00:17:39enduring and legitimate than what we have now,
00:17:43so I, I, I'm not pessimistic in that sense, but of course
00:17:46that depends on the leadership, and now you brought up key feature of all of this,
00:17:50this mecca agreement. I think it's too soon
00:17:54to tell, you know,
00:17:58we can't pass judgement on something that has only
00:18:01recently
00:18:02been signed, and we don't know what's going to be implemented and how it will be
00:18:05implemented uh... "you know, again, I, I don't know
00:18:09what Mr. Erdogan really plans, what he
00:18:13really wants, you'll
00:18:15have to ask him, he,
00:18:17he has to sort out very clearly and
00:18:19unambiguously what
00:18:22this alliance, if you want to call it an alliance, I,
00:18:25I think it's more like the ont that brought France and
00:18:29Britain and ultimately Russia together before World War
00:18:32I, does does Turk, does the turks want
00:18:36to be lock?" into an automatic
00:18:39trigger to enter conflict on the basis of this
00:18:43agreement. i think world war one was a catastrophe largely
00:18:47because the people that allied themselves against Germany and austria
00:18:51and
00:18:51then eventually against the ottomans did so on the basis
00:18:55of
00:18:55a of an automatic trigger. in other words, country x
00:18:59does this, that means y, z and so forth, all have to join
00:19:03it. so i think that's that's something has to be sorted out.
00:19:08"there's another issue here: tragically, as we saw during
00:19:12World War I, Christians don't have any trouble murdering each
00:19:16other. I think there's a lot of evidence that Muslims also don't
00:19:20have trouble murdering each other. I would hope that in the 21st
00:19:23century Christians and Muslims will reconsider the wisdom of
00:19:27killing their co-religionists. Uh, I would hope
00:19:31that Turkey in particular would look at the
00:19:35situation on the Arabian peninsula." and try to
00:19:39guide the actors on that peninsula towards peace as
00:19:42opposed to more conflict and war. another words, find a settlement,
00:19:46find a way to end the fighting down in Yemen and Southern
00:19:49Arabia, because the people killing each other down
00:19:53there are Muslims, they don't really have to kill each
00:19:57other, and I think that the Turks in particular could
00:20:01have a positive role there. now, as far as the Pakistanis are
00:20:04concerned, I think they're worried about so... Arabia which
00:20:08has been a source of financial support for them, and
00:20:12I'm I'm sure everyone is worried about the holy sites,
00:20:15how far do you go? again, remember small
00:20:19states, and even though Saudi Arabia is large a map, I
00:20:23consider to be a small state by comparison, and this is
00:20:27true for Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, any number of small states around the
00:20:31world or Israel for that matter, they're always looking for a
00:20:34larger power that they can harness.
00:20:38to their interests that they can find who will fight their
00:20:42wars for them and i think that's
00:20:45something that the
00:20:48new mecca agreement
00:21:20opposed to a giant regional war that results from it.
00:21:23I don't know if that makes any sense, but it makes a lot of
00:21:27sense uh, but I mean, the Turks are very good at
00:21:31laying out their military objectives when they enter into
00:21:35something, and I mean
00:21:36from what I've seen so far over the past 24 hours, it's been
00:21:40very, very clear cut that they're just going to be there a defensive
00:21:44capability and not cross the border into Yemen any type
00:21:47of cross border operation. but aside from
00:21:51that, how do you see the Saudi Hothi war uh
00:21:55progressing right now? I mean, obviously very difficult geography, you have
00:21:59very veteran non-state actor unit that's
00:22:02basically been at warfrat over decade, I mean even much further if
00:22:06you go back through Yemen's history, so they're very war- hardened,
00:22:10very battle hardened and a geography that's kind of hard
00:22:14to uproot them, what does victory look like for the Saudis and
00:22:18what's the risk? "the Saudi
00:22:21control of much of what today we call or used to call Yamen
00:22:25is fairly recent. You've got to go back into the 1930s
00:22:29and look at the fighting that ensued then that resulted in
00:22:33the current borders between Saudi Arabia and
00:22:35Yemen. The point that I think is important for everybody to
00:22:39understand is that the war in Yemen between the Yemenis
00:22:43or the hooties and ultimately the House of
00:22:46Sud pre-existed. the Mecca
00:22:50agreement, these are these are conflicts that quite
00:22:53frankly have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia's
00:22:57relationship with Pakistan or Turkey, so I think that
00:23:01should be taken into consideration. Also, remember, the people
00:23:05in Yemen have been subjected to mass murder,
00:23:08starvation, uh, thirst, I mean, the
00:23:12treatment meeted out to them by the House of Sword is
00:23:15reprehensible, so I would hope that Turkia
00:23:19and Pakistan, Islamabad and and Ankara
00:23:22will try to persuade the House of Saw to reach an
00:23:26agreement with these people in some fashion. If they insist a
00:23:30ruthless war of extermination, I would certainly back
00:23:34away from it. I think that would be very bad idea, so I hope the
00:23:38if the if the Turks are willing to provide some defensive
00:23:41support to cities in terms of air
00:23:44defense, that's fine, but I i would hope they would
00:23:48otherwise stay out of this, because I no benefit to the Turks or the
00:23:52Pakistanis from participating in it? well, it's definitely going
00:23:56to be a trial by fire for very new
00:23:58defensive coalition, so we're going to
00:24:01have to see how it operates without much interoperability between
00:24:05the Pakistanies and the Turks, obviously one them with domestic and American hardware,
00:24:09the other one
00:24:10with lot of Chinese hardware, and the Saudis
00:24:13obviously not up to the professional level of a
00:24:17NATO standard army, so it's going to be... interesting to see how these
00:24:21kinks get worked out with zero joint
00:24:23exercises, so that'll be something to follow, but
00:24:27bubbling beneath the surface of everything that we've talked about is
00:24:31tensions between Israel and turkey. now after the
00:24:34outing of assad and effectively
00:24:38the removal of Iran influence in Syria, mean
00:24:42i i first thought, wow, this must be great for Israel, they
00:24:45got rid of Iran from Syria, that land bridge from
00:24:49hez. to Tehran has now been broken, the Turks are
00:24:53there a NATO country, Israelis are probably indirectly benefiting
00:24:57and happy, but a couple months afterwards, I began seeing
00:25:00this,
00:25:01uh, Turkis the next iran didn't take it seriously at first, then saw someone
00:25:05like Naftali Benet, a former prime minister and opposition party
00:25:09leader, repeat it, then I started seeing that American Israeli
00:25:13lobby cutouts uh repeating it and said, okay,
00:25:16someone's putting some money behind this message now, because it's getting...
00:25:20propagate, i started taking a lot more seriously, and now we're starting
00:25:24to see some type of indirect action, the bombing of base
00:25:27in Syria, lot more, lot more
00:25:31rhetoric at the prime minister level by
00:25:34Netanyahu, where is this going?
00:25:38there were many voices behind the scenes in Israel who over the last 10 to
00:25:4215 years warned consistently against
00:25:45the notion that somehow or another was in Israel's
00:25:49interest. to drive Assad's government out
00:25:53of Syria, in other words, to replace the Assad government with something
00:25:57else. It's happened, we joined
00:26:01in along with MI6, the CIA and Masad
00:26:04worked very hard. We also went in and
00:26:08weaponized the Kurds, as did the
00:26:11Israelis as another means of undermining and weakening
00:26:15Assad, and so we have new Syria, and the new
00:26:19Syria is now problematic for
00:26:21Israel. I don't know why the Israelis ever thought that a
00:26:25government that came to power after Assad, that
00:26:29was as strongly Islamist as the government has turned. about to be in
00:26:33Damascus would ever be friendly to Israel, it it just
00:26:37makes no sense, but that's
00:26:39happened. does it make any difference
00:26:43to Turkia? well, that's a matter for Ankara to decide,
00:26:47but I think Ankara now realizes that they have de
00:26:50facto created a shared border with Israel,
00:26:54because Turkish influence now extends down into Damascus
00:26:58and across Syria, and the question
00:27:02is: how do the Israelis and and the turks deal with
00:27:05this? the problem for Turkey and I think for
00:27:09the entire region at this point is really this greater Israel
00:27:13project. if you were dealing with an Israeli government that
00:27:17say existed 25, 30 years ago,
00:27:21whose aims were actually quite limited and was interested
00:27:25in peace and prosperity, you might have
00:27:29the opportunity to sit down and negotiate. government doesn't
00:27:33seem to be very interested in peace and prosperity under any circumstances
00:27:37except those that they dictate, so that means that
00:27:41Israel wants its greater israel project, and by
00:27:44definition that means most of Syria, half of Iraq, nearly
00:27:48half of Arabia, a large portion of Egypt, and
00:27:52now we can all say that's insane, but
00:27:55unfortunately, we're supporting it, we're backing
00:27:59it, and there is no pressure, none.
00:28:32unity doesn't exist, so the question
00:28:35is, do do you andcara sit and
00:28:39wait until the israelis end up in
00:28:42Damascus, do you sit and wait until you're
00:28:45confronted with enemies coming at you from
00:28:48Israel,
00:28:50i don't know, or do you act, and then the question
00:28:54is, well turkey is still, turkey is still a member of NATO,
00:28:58but i'm not sure NATO is terribly meaningful anyway, and i don't think the
00:29:02tur be too concerned about that, NATO or the
00:29:05European components of it are certainly not going to intervene in that
00:29:08mess. i don't have any easy answers.
00:29:11what i'm trying to do though is tell you that what's changed and
00:29:15seems to be now a permanent fixture at least for the moment, is an
00:29:19Israeli government that will not compromise, and that boads
00:29:23ill for the future of turkish influence and power in the region.
00:29:27colonel Douglas McGregor, thank you very much, very enlightening
00:29:30conversation.
00:29:35And that's all for this edition of Straight Talk with me
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