The Trump administration’s handling of the war in Iran makes the Bush administration’s handling of the invasion of Iraq look like a masterful military strategy.
Every day of the ongoing war, new details emerge about how the Trump administration made a series of incorrect assumptions in its war planning that led to the current situation.
CNN reported:
The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to U.S. military strikes when planning the current operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump’s national security team has not fully considered the potential consequences of what some officials have described as the worst-case scenario the administration is currently facing, the sources said.
It is mind-boggling that the administration is not considering the possibility of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, because Middle East experts and previous administrations believed for decades that the Iranian regime was under threat and would block the strait.
This possibility of Iran’s response was neither unknown nor unforeseen.
One of the most time-tested signals that an administration is losing on an issue is when the executive branch begins to complain about media coverage like Sec. Pete Hegseth did it on Friday.
Hegseth said:
Some of this team in the press just can’t stop. Let me make a few suggestions. People watch television and see banners, headlines. I have worked in this profession and I know that everything is written intentionally. For example, a banner or headline, The War in the Middle East, has been intensifying on the screen in recent days, alongside images of civilian or energy targets that Iran has struck because that’s what it does.
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