Politico’s Laura Seligman and Alexander Ward produced what, by rights, should be a bombshell report on Wednesday.
Their sources in the Pentagon are vexed by the growing recklessness displayed by Iranian-proxy militia groups as they rain rockets and drones down on U.S. and Israeli assets throughout the region, and they’re annoyed by the Biden administration’s lethargic response to those attacks. Over the weekend, an “hourslong assault” on commercial shipping in the Red Sea in which the USS Carney took part represented a significant “escalation,” as reported by the Associated Press. Accordingly, the Pentagon has drawn up plans for a potential response, but the president has not seen those plans. Why? Because the functionaries subordinate to the president are afraid of what Joe Biden might do with them.
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