Re:Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia
by hirako2000 on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:29PM
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I thought the US president said they didn't expect a number of things that happened.
It also expected a quick intervention, 2 weeks max.
Re:Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia
by JumpCrisscross on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:42PM
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> the US president…
The President is a political leader.
Re:Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia
by chasd00 on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:49PM
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To be fair Trump admins most optimistic timeline was “4-6 weeks maybe longer”. We’re at the end of week 3.
Re:Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia
by hirako2000 on Sunday March 22, 2026 @07:34AM
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I recall it was 12 days, or 4 weeks. Perhaps I missed an early prediction from the state that it could be 4 to 6 weeks.
The 12 days, and 2 weeks is what I recall most. But reality is what we want to see and hear. Some would say we are at week 4. Some that we are ending week 3.
Reason would be to accept we are taken for fools anyway. Or worse, run by fools.
Iran has done precisely nothing unexpected in the entire course of this war. Closing Hormuz has been mooted since the 70s. And its IRBM stockpile has been known. This is more a case of something between political leaders and possibly the media being ignorant of even open-source intelligence.