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Nothing Surprising About Iran’s Response

“There’s nothing surprising about anything Iran is doing” in response to the U.S.-Israeli attacks, Ray Takeyh told us today. Takeyh is a Middle East scholar and participant in a Council on Foreign Relations panel on Iran this afternoon. “They’re doing exactly what they said they’d do,” he added. Not surprisingly, of course, the U.S. Administration has been completely caught off guard by Iran’s response. In yet another chapter in the “bozos will be bozos” saga, the Administration is often befuddled, without any strategic framework, unable to state and sustain war objectives, constantly lying, insulting our service men and women with pseudo-macho bravado and by equating war with video games and sporting events, creating enmity with allies, destabilizing the global economy, and currently launching a new regime in Tehran worse than the previous one and with revenge on its mind.  There has been little by way of interagency process critical to coordinate political, economic, and military...

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