So you are embarrassed that your leaders don't want their soldiers to die in a war started by another country without providing any semblance of justification?

...I'm just glad that European politicians take their soldiers' lives more seriously than the court of public opinions. Well, at least some of them. That's the mark of being an adult.

> ...I'm just glad that European politicians take their soldiers' lives more seriously than the court of public opinions. Well, at least some of them. That's the mark of being an adult.

A mark of being an adult, is if European politicians would value the lives of their civilians, present and future, higher than their soldiers, yes.

A world where Iran continues to develop and improve the reliability of their ICBM's, nuclear weapons designs and re-entry vehicles, would place those civilians, present and future, at risk.

Short-sighted, short-term thinking poll-vote-oriented decision taking is not adult at all. A lot of administration agnostic personnel prepared these playbooks a long time in advance, and you and I may not like the current sitting president of the United States, that doesn't mean this president isn't offered valuable options prior presidents may have been to scared to select. Perhaps the failed assassination attempt gave this president the courage the earlier ones lacked?

Imagine you were the president of the United States, would you feel safe the rest of your life, about yourself, your family and loved ones, if you gave a green light to disarm Iran? It's not like US presidents have never been assassinated. I don't think it's a coincidence that a president that has experienced a failed assassination attempt is the one with the courage to give that green light, although the lack of general intelligence may have been a contributing factor.

I think many in the Pentagon are relieved that they were finally able to convince a president of what needed to be done a long time before.