Biden’s Slow Middle East Response Enables Forever War 2.0 on a Larger Scale
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The long-awaited Biden response to the Iranian proxy attack on the Tower 22 base camp in Jordan, which killed three Americans, has occurred. The suspenseful Biden delay in striking back was oddly reminiscent of the six months of shouting by the American Intelligence Community (IC) in advance of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. The megaphone cadence was relentless: Russia would invade, and Ukraine would fall quickly. Two years later, here we are.
The American IC got it right as far as the Russians invading. But did the relentless cadence in media, and statements by the IC stoke the invasion and conflict? The reason for IC output is to inform policy and action,
