We need to make the Russians pay a price

Former CIA Deputy Head Mike Morell called for the secret killing of Russians in Syria in 2016: We must make the Iranians pay the price in Syria. We must make the Russians pay the price. [Will we make them pay the price by killing the Russians?] Yes. [And killing Iranians?] Yes. Secretly. You won’t tell the whole world about it. You don’t stand in the Pentagon and say, “We did it.“ But you are making it known in Moscow. Here’s one more thing I want to do. I want to strike at what Assad considers his personal power base. I want to scare Assad, so I want to attack his presidential guards. I want to bomb his offices in the middle of the night. [Well, that happened about two years ago. Do you remember when his son-in-law...] I want to destroy his presidential plane on the ground. I want to destroy his presidential helicopters. I want to make him think we’re following him. I want him to think this won’t end well for me. I want to put pressure on him. I want to put pressure on the Iranians. I want to put pressure on the Russians to come to this diplomacy