A good article no doubt, BUT wouldn't it have been smarter to tell the Joint Chiefs of Staff what was going to happen? Allow some input. Have your foreign advisors throw in their ideas?Dictatorship works well at times, BUT when so many stones will roll when a small wedge is removed, it is good to talk to level heads and get their ideas.We Americans were getting used to Presidential Orders (or what ever they are called) under President Obama. Now more battlefield decisions made from a phone call and the Wedge when removed is supposed to be replaced with a threat of 'Ruining your Economy,' if you play the bad guy. WE know the mid East is familiar with threats, they are usually only taken seriously if Israel makes them, and that is not Israel's policy. Some facts but mostly just my
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