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US intelligence has been up against more widesread and more effective counter-intelligence. It’s entirely possible that they simply didn’t have the intelligence they needed and they had to fill in some gaps with guesswork, and they chose optimism.
it didn’t matter if the situation was going to get bad because the alternative was letting Iran get stronger
the goal isn’t to win it’s to get enemy capabilities focused somewhere, anywhere, instead of being held in reserve, in order to create opportunities for the US to gain initiative on its next move
Thank you for helping me understand it a bit better! I think I have a clearer picture now together with the other comments explaining similar things.
US intelligence has been telling US presidents since Reagan that attacking Iran is a dumb idea. It’s why the US tried it through an Iraqi proxy for plausible deniability. Trump is just the first to be malleable enough to be 100% on board with Zionist and Christo-Fascist rhetoric. His “I don’t think I’m getting into heaven” comment was written off as a joke, but it should have scared the shit out of all of us, since it showed his mindset. He was probably led to believe by those around him, including too many in the Pentagon, that attacking Iran was his get-of-jail-free card and Dog would grant him indulgence for diddling little kids.