When it comes to intelligence reports showing up in the media, there are always feints and double-feints. Sometimes the intended audience to be fooled is not the general public but another country's general public, or its intelligence service, or some intricate balancing act many audiences. It causes me to forget my role as the person pointing out the obvious. The chorus in the ancient Greek dramas was usually supposed to represent to what the audience wanted to say, or what the community would wish to ask. It's a useful part of the play.
There are reports that the American bombs destroyed nearly everything of importance at the Iranian nuclear sites. Then there are reports that much of the good stuff was taken away in the nick of time and it was merely a flesh wound. All reports are careful to say that they are being cautious because it's all way underground and it hasn't been analysed yet, then they are not the least bit cautious at all and make some pretty declarative statements.
It occurs to me that if they weren't destroyed the Israelis would want every one to know that so they could bomb them some more. Heck, they might want everyone to think they weren't destroyed even if they were, for the same purpose of public opinion about more bombing. Am I just being naive here?
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