As an aside, everything this administration does re: Iran ends up in the "THIS is why you don't do that" bucket.

*This* situation - is why you don't declare a ceasefire and victory unilaterally, because what if Iran screws you on it?

And this whole war is "THIS is why you don't just attack Iran."

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What if IRAN screws you?

And not the country that literally said they didn't acknowledge it? You know, Israel?
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We're watching a bunch of guys convinced that everyone who had their jobs before them were just stupid slowly discovering - without learning a damn thing - that there were in fact very good reasons why no one did the 'obvious' thing before them.

This is why.
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Earlier today, I saw some excerpts from an Israeli pro-war podcast from a few weeks ago where the very earnest podcasters talked very earnestly about how Israelis have to live with consequences of all this, but Americans don't.

Glad I have enough level-headedness that my computer is still fine.
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I would call it learning by touching the stove, but unfortunately it's more like helplessly watching as someone grabs your hand and forces you to touch the stove and also I'm skeptical they're learning.
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I wonder if this situation will continue long enough for the incompetence on display at the strategic level to start filtering down to the operational or tactical level.

I guess Trump's various orders to relax ROEs are a step in that direction but it can get so much worse.
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Though the real people that need to learn the lesson really are the median voters: THIS is why you do not put unserious fools in charge of the government.

THIS is why 'he talks like me' (= he tells it 'like it is') is not a good qualification for president.
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"Who keeps giving the enemy a vote in my war."
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Not even the enemy screwing him on it, but a supposed ally, too.
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Iran's seemed to be consistent around the scope of the ceasefire / end of war they were demanding - Israel might be screwing Trump over on it, but I wouldn't be surprised by it coming from the US side too
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"*This* situation - is why you don't declare a ceasefire and victory unilaterally, because what if Iran screws you on it?"

As you and others have already noted, "the enemy gets a vote".
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Chesterton's Fence admin at it again!
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"Guys who thought that nobody had done the obvious thing because they were bad and stupid slowly learning that there were good and smart reasons nobody had done the obvious thing" has been a theme of this entire administration.
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The endpoint of the decades-long war on expertise or even basic competence.
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