Whether vacillation or strategy, it might have been useful to have a lot more than 150 Iranians spending several minutes thinking they were about to get a serving of Shock & Awe. (For one thing, all the other surveillance assets got to see where and how everyone reacted.)
There is a theory that there is some military advantage derived w/ a crazy leader...something like that the enemy can't plan based on strategically logical moves by his opponent. (I might have read this in John Keegan's "A History of Warfare.")