We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Advisor John Bolton and CIA Director Gina Haspel – predictably had favored a military response. But top Pentagon officials cautioned that such an action could set off a spiraling escalation that could draw in American forces in the region.
Iran's military reach via proxies across the Middle East, gives the leadership plenty of options, including retaliatory assassination attempts, kidnappings, bombings of U.S. government facilities, and attacks on shipping and other privately-owned U.S. entities.
Iran might also seek to draw Israel into a conflict via Hezbollah in Lebanon.
We can't rule out some sort of grand-scale attack, but an array of smaller-scale activity is our core bet.
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