Well, Iron Eagle II* was even dumber. Does that help? * Ironically, the plot of which was about a coalition involving the U.S., Israel, and the Soviet Union to take out the nuclear weapons program of a middle eastern country that was clearly meant to be Iran.
My point is that we will never know, because Trump exited the agreement. So, we (the electorate) can’t really say factually and empirically that we know the result of the alternative timeline where Trump didn’t exit the agreement. In other words, I could easily say we would have been allowed next to the sites. Who knows? We are all throwing out opinions here as facts, which is really a problem with the situation. We need fact based reporting.
If democrats were not notified…. that would clearly explain why there were no “leaks”. Can you imagine what would have happened if Jose Padilla, Max Waters, AOC or the Somali Princess had been told of the attack, in advance???!
Know to a certainty, I agree. But can you ever? The depth and breadth of the Israeli intelligence is what I find most compelling. I was not as skeptical as many about what Israel was reporting, but I still had my doubts about how they could possibly know what they said they knew. I’m no longer a doubter. That they could get the entire IRGC general staff into a room together and then take it out. That they could simultaneously take out all of the Iranian nuclear scientists where they slept. Our best people on their best day couldn’t pull that off. Israel clearly had their hand on the pulse of that program all along.
De Borchgrave specialized in cybertrrrorism/cyberwarfare at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in @ashington DC. Arnaud co-chaired a task force that put out this book (or report) in 1998: Cyber threats and information security : meeting the 21st century challenge Since you claim "cyber" was just becoming a thing in 2006 you must be impressed that Arnaud was working on cyberterrorism/data security/etc in the 1990s. He was ahead of his time and still extremely sharp at the time of his death.
I notice you refer to Alex Padilla as "Jose", just like JD Vance did. Have to wonder if this is an honest mistake (by both you and Vance), or just an attempt to "other" a political opponent by implying that his ethnicity is that of a minority ("Remember - he's not like you and me!") To be fair, it could just be you repeating what you've heard from one of your esteemed political leaders. From Vance, who publicly stated that he intentionally told racist lies about immigrants during the election campaign, it would be rational to assume the opposite. After all, Trump and his Administration have a long history of racist statements and actions followed up with "Ooops, our mistake - why are you so bothered?".
A logical explanation for this is that the US told Iran about the attack in advance. The attack achieved little to nothing in all probability. Iran refrained from attacking our planes and the US promised no more attacks Just a possibility (but remember, I'm a genius)
I thought think tanks like CSIS are part of the deep state. Are we cool citing them now? And I doubt Arnaud did an original work since he was caught plagiarizing during his time there. So not really impressed.
Or, and hear me out, Iran had nothing to shoot at them with since the Israelis destroyed the majority of Iran's air defenses and have air superiority over Iran right now. (but remember, I'm just a mediocre staff officer.)
What about Aces: Iron Eagle III or Iron Eagle on the Attack? Both carried by Chappy and received some Oscar buzz at the time of their release.
