US ‘not really that much better off’ than before Iran war: Retired admiral

Retired Adm. William McRaven said Sunday that the U.S. is “not really that much better off” than it was before the war with Iran

“I don’t think [Iran] had a nuclear weapon. I don’t think it was… coming about imminently,” McRaven, the former head of U.S. Special Operations Command under President Obama, told host Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week.”

“But the fact of the matter is we’re not really that much better off now than we were before February 28th,” he continued, referring to the day that the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran. “Yes, we have sunk their navy. Yes, we have destroyed their air force. Yes, we have taken out a lot of their leadership, but I’m not sure we’re a lot better off.”

President Trump and administration have justified the war by arguing that the Islamic Republic was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon and was unwilling to curtail its own ballistic missile program.

The initial wave of U.S.-Israeli strikes resulted in the deaths of numerous Iranian military and government officials,........

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