Originally Posted by
BonnieLass
........ Everyone can scream that the US administration stuffed things up with Iran and not thinking about the direct consequences....but let us not forget that the decision to take Iran to war was not a decision of one administration alone.
True, and I have oft wondered just how Netanyahu played Trump on this one as I'm convinced that something happened there.
That said, it speaks nothing of the US - well, rather you-know-who and his advisors - if the US took the bait. Talk of the "tail wagging the bison" just to scale it more appropriately.
This seems to be the situation. So the most powerful country's CIC and his "advisors", sorry, "yes men", go for Netanyahu's plan which probably appealed to DT's ego so was almost certain to be taken up.
So, tbh, rather than that being an excuse, it's more a case that they stuffed up twice here. Firstly, by being conned by Netanyahu AND then by not being able to predict what would happen! Or, rather, a CiC not listening to those who knew but listening to those who told him what he wanted to hear instead.
Or have I missed something here?