I'm not waking up to anything. I was all for the Fordrow annihilation last summer and was fine with hammering Iran this past Spring--- long overdue; the part that is bugging me now is that:
- The story that Hegseth and General Caine were giving us back at the start of this war has totally morphed over the life of it.
- After knocking the crap out of Iran, we just let up and stopped for two whole months allowing them to regroup and recover, while we were supposedly now just going to let them suffer until they could take no more.
Sure, Iran has been devastated, hurt very badly, but they are showing more resolve now to hang in there and tough it out than we are showing in taking the matter to fruition, made all the worse by the fact that we are going it totally alone while 190 other countries stand in the wings just watching us, and wishing us luck, contributing nothing.
Vance and Iran are in Switzerland right now; let's hope something productive comes out of it. It just bugs me all this fooling around and half-measures--- for all they are criticized and attacked for it, I admire the IDF for their not cutting any corners: whether Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah now in Lebanon, Israel goes at it fully committed, no fooling around.
IMO, instead of wasting the past two months hoping to starve Iran out until they just capitulated, we should have hit them much harder so that they were already at the desperate position they are at now, back in April, then we would have had all of Spring to resolve the matter instead of it now spilling over into the July 4 holiday and running right up against the midterm election season.