Trump is now caught in the oldest trap of modern warfare – believing a swift, surgical military operation will yield quick, enduring political results. The Soviets did it in Afghanistan; the US in Iraq in 2003; Putin did it in Ukraine, and is still fighting. Whatever force a military fails or succeeds in applying at the start, the people it is attacking have greater commitment to defending their lands and homes.
The White House may have rushed into this, seizing the opportunity for a decapitation strike, provided by Israeli intelligence. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has very different objectives regionally, and a long US involvement against Tehran suits his desire for an Iran in rolling collapse that is no longer a threat. But the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 28 has caused as many problems as it has solved.
I love how now the Israel is blamed for the US failures.
It’s a joint failure. Israel is also to blame, as is often the case with US interventionism.
Both are at fault.
Given how rarely any corpo media holds their feet to the fire, that’s almost more interesting than whether it’s true.
Israel is the result of failure from both the US and the UK. Pretty much the same as the Taliban in Afghanistan.