The Israeli army carried out a sequence of in a single day raids in Gaza utilizing troops, tanks, and artillery forward of an impending full-scale invasion of northern Gaza. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who beforehand served as a CIA analyst and Pentagon official, joins Andrea Mitchell to debate the raids in Gaza and what American involvement in an invasion may seem like. Slotkin likened the anticipated invasion of Gaza to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the place city warfare in opposition to Al Qaeda difficult army operations. “Have a look at Fallujah and america in 2004, proper? We couldn’t succeed there the primary time we went in. We needed to cease; it was too lethal to america. We could not distinguish between civilians and militants,” Slotkin says. “I am urging my Division of Protection colleagues to have these powerful conversations. That’s a part of being a companion and an ally to a different nation, having powerful conversations about these items, notably if we will be dragged in.”
