Patel, who served as former chief of staff to Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, made the remark during his Nov. 2 appearance on "Bannon's War Room." He told his erstwhile colleague and podcast host Steve Bannon: "These government gangsters have set us up for another world war, and they're the only ones who are going to get rich off of it."
"They do not care about the American position that we are now put in with our greatest ally, Israel. They do not care about the thousands of people over there that are going to be entrapped in a war. They only care about the political narrative that somehow [U.S. President] Joe Biden is succeeding," Patel continued.
"On what front is this commander-in-chief succeeding by starting two new world wars? Having Americans taken hostage, having Americans killed, having Israelis killed, having children beheaded. What success has this been? The intelligence failure was intentional because the Biden administration did not want to look for it."
Bannon, formerly the White House chief strategist under the Trump administration, agreed with Patel. He cited remarks by Yoram Hazony, president of the Jerusalem-based Herzl Institute, who said that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are already in the tunnels in Gaza City fighting with the air campaign going on. Hazony also mentioned that the military campaign in the Gaza Strip will take months. (Related: Hamas’ sophisticated tunnel networks pose a significant challenge for Israel.)
Patel: Conflict between Israel, Hamas now a full-fledged war
According to the DoD official-turned-children's book author, people will probably now realize how long it takes to mobilize an armed force.
"This is not ending tomorrow. It's not ending this year; it may not end next year. This is a full-fledged war and you cannot, in war, … have knee-jerk reactions." Patel said.
"That is what these morons in the White House are doing. Seeking headlines instead of preparing the landscape, gathering the intelligence, reorienting assets, not just within [the] DoD and the intelligence community, but talking to our partners and saying, 'You're in this fight with us. Now we have to figure out how to defeat the enemy.' And that is a campaign that is going to take months and if not years."
Patel ultimately remarked that this is about Iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, alongside its military units – the Quds Force and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Also involved are Hamas, which Israel seeks to exterminate, and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah.
"These guys have been planning for this day for probably 20 years. If we think we're going to wipe them off the map in days, then that is exactly the attitude they want us to take. I fear with Biden, that's where we're heading," Patel said.
Bannon said the military operation is not going to end for months and it is going to get tougher.
He noted that the American Civil War and World War II were conflicts that have metastasized into becoming almost attrition, brutal and nastier and this is what is going to happen on the southern border of America because it is inextricably linked.
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