Post #3022911

@hszakher@mastodon.world @Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social @slott56@fosstodon.org "resulting mess" includes a lot of really embarrassing cleanup that will be humiliating for whoever owns it: think paying affected third parties and implicitly endorsing the regime in Iran via a variety of policy changes at their behest, losing face with various allies in the region where we clearly can't keep them safe, **and** owning the resulting inflation, economic impact, etc. If someone other than the executive (read: President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State) ends up owning this fiasco, it will empower the executive to do it again. **And** they will have a punching bag to distract from their failures, because "our plan would have worked, but we were thwarted!". It's like the grownups bailing out a teenager who's causing damage. Maybe it's done from a feeling of love or responsibility, but shielding that person from consequences will teach them that they don't have to worry about consequences.