(03-07-2026, 08:26 PM)Moon68 Wrote: Looks like the summary of findings of the report was based on the Council of Clerics and leadership structure remaining intact.
I'd say day 1 made the report moot with the first strikes.
Not only that, but it also came from the same fine folks who said Iraq had WMD's.
Because of that, I'm not sure that I'd trust them any farther now than we should have then.
The fact is, whatever viewpoint on the war one wants to take, they will find someone out there on the internet more than willing to fuel their particular fire, and who has no scruples about accurately reporting the fuel for those claims.
Flat out lies burn hotter and brighter, actually.
All one has to do is look around a bit, and he will shortly find "support" for whatever viewpoint or stance he wants to take. Finding actual objective reporting is quite a bit harder, and requires a deeper scour of the "sources".
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake