Early next week, there will be a classified briefing to Senators on Iran, in which skeptical Congressional leaders will demand answers to fundamental questions. It will also be incumbent upon the White House to demonstrate to the American people that attacking Iran would be an act of necessity, with a plan for the aftermath, before launching the B-2 heavy bombers from Diego Garcia laden with GBU-57 30,000-pound bunker busters. Iran:
Early next week, there will be a classified briefing to Senators on Iran, in which skeptical Congressional leaders will demand answers to fundamental questions. It will also be incumbent upon the White House to demonstrate to the American people that attacking Iran would be an act of necessity, with a plan for the aftermath, before launching the B-2 heavy bombers from Diego Garcia laden with GBU-57 30,000-pound bunker busters.
First, how good is the intelligence that indicates that Iran is on the verge of possessing a nuclear weapon?
Israel has been saying for years that Iran was close to the 90 percent enrichment threshold. As recently as March, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to Congress that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. However, earlier this week, President Trump repudiated Gabbard’s view, positioning himself with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fear of an imminent threat. (RELATED: Trump Isn’t Looking for a Ceasefire. He Wants a No-Nukes Iran.)
Skepticism about the quality of intelligence is justified: Going to war against Iraq in 2003 based on the view that Saddam Hussein had WMDs was a massive intelligence failure, leading to chaos after the Battle of Baghdad and ultimately the rise of ISIS.
