Subject: Re: The TACOrettes keep coming
So, now, they try to insist they did have a plan.

They certainly had some plan. Whether it was a good one or not, the Administration certainly would have had a "this is the outcome if things go well" scenario. What they wanted to happen. And that certainly wasn't a "months-long stalemate with no progress and very high gas prices due to the Strait of Hormuz being entirely blocked.

No way would a picked front man sit in a meeting he knew was targeted. One of the Mossad or CIA agents in country would make sure he was safe.

Yeah, unless they botched it. Fog of war, and all that. Turns out that when the window opened up to kill Khameini, there ended up being a lot more people in the room than they might have wanted. Right at the very beginning of the war, they came right out and admitted they ended up killing most of the people they were looking at as successors in that in initial strike:

The president told reporters on Tuesday that his administration’s preferred successors to the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were killed in recent airstrikes on Iran. In a press conference at the White House, Trump openly worried that the attack on Iran would be for naught.

“The worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person, right? That could happen. We don’t want that to happen,” he said. “You go through this and in five years you realize you put somebody in who is no better.”

When asked who he would pick to lead the country, Trump admitted that his administration’s top candidates in the Iranian government had been killed.

“Most of the people we had in mind are dead,” he said. Now, we have another group. They may be dead also, based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming in. Pretty sure we’re not going to know anybody.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/art...

They didn't want the outcome of this war to be closing the Strait and taking all that oil off the market. They wanted to take out Khameini and replace him with someone who would cut a deal with the U.S. and let the oil flow, just like in Venezuela. They might not have picked a single individual, and instead have a list of folks they thought might take over - but either way, they didn't expect Khameini's son to be the one to take charge and for Iran to continue to be as steadfast in opposition.

The scenario we're in now is a mistake, the failure scenario, from the Administration's pre-war planning (if even they planned for it, given that they didn't anticipate that Iran would use attacks against our Gulf allies as a way of keeping us from even trying to reopen the Strait to cargo traffic).