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Or the Iraq intelligence operation, which led to the Iraq war and a lot of the present-day instability in the region. There was wrong intelligence that was believed-in, and right intelligence (claiming there were no massive stockpiles of WMDs) that was dismissed [1][2].

[1]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/9... [2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/12/...

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Plus Syria undeniably posesses WMD (sarin) yet we don't invade. Almost like WMD was a pretense and not something that forced our hand...

Or, just maybe, the USA feels that today is not a good day to start a war with Russia?

> Or, just maybe, the USA feels that today is not a good day to start a war with Russia?

Is telling the middle east they should either build a full blown nuke (ala NK) or allow the Russians to build a base are ways to avoid invasion the message we want to send?

I agree as a practical matter the Russian base plays heavily into our decisions but maybe we shouldn't incentivize small countries to allow them to...

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