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Former US Ambassador to Israel, Defense Dept., State Dept., NSC. @AtlanticCouncil. Working toward a secure, integrated, peaceful Middle East. Devoted Cubs fan.
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Dan Shapiro Verified account @DanielBShapiro
Shorter: there is no “finish the job” through military means, not at any acceptable cost. The cul-de-sac we have arrived at, and remain in, was inevitable.

That’s why this misguided war should never have been launched. It needs to end, and we will have to use diplomacy, containment, and deterrence to deal with an Iran that is still-dangerous, and arguably strategically stronger because of our mistakes.

The American people rendered their verdict on Election Day. End the war.
Marc Polymeropoulos Verified account @Mpolymer 3d
So the CENTCOM target list was now the problem? Interesting line of argument from the FDD crowd. Back and forth below is instructive re the limitations of air power. Need to mull over the FDD argument some more, but it is clear that there was very little coordination/planning between CENTCOM and the agency, if regime change was a goal. Target list irrelevant with no real covert action plan. I’m starting to coalesce around a belief that this entire campaign was rushed, ill planned, and poorly executed. What finally occurred (action against an evil regime) was carried about by an incompetent national security team. And senior US military and IC who should have pushed back more, as we had no covert action plan in conjunction with policy, clearly were caught flat footed on things that should not have occurred (awful force pro on bases, surprise at Iranian closure of SOH). More to come as I would imagine hearings post January 3 may shed more light… incompetence reigns. The FDD crowd were so excited that a president finally took action against Iran - what they got was disaster based on the worst people in place to execute it.
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