MSNBC Max Rose Exposes Lindsey Graham's foolish call to "take the place by force"

From 2012 to 2013, Max Rose served in the U.S. ARMY as a platoon leader in combat in the War in Afghanistan. Wounded while on duty, officer Rose was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

MAX ROSE: "He couldn't be more incorrect.

I think that anyone who has spent a minute in the US wars over the past 25 years knows that you can't just bomb and kill your way out of a counter terrorism fight.

He's acting out of pure politics and pure emotion and vengeance right now; and most importantly trying to thump his chest to appear strong before the body politic, which is absolutely immoral."

Christopher O'Leary former senior executive, FBI Counterterrorism Division

"I don't think the Netanyahu government is truly interested in negotiating with Hamas and coming up with a cessation of hostilies.

I would say that what they're doing right now - leveling Gaza and looking to occupy it was their intent from the beginning.

Even after October 7 they weren't conducting their operations in such a way as to illuminate Hamas as a network and surgically go after individuals; they were really just going with a full scale offensive. Nor were they really looking to surgically locate and rescue the hostages.

They were kind of an afterthought.

What you're getting is this massive destruction and making this place uninhabitable for Gazans and I think that's what the Prime Minister wanted from the beginning."

"You can never defeat guerrilla fighters in their swamps" -- Nguyen Van Lem (Vietcong General)