Israel has learned this lesson many times. Once a mission is stopped for days or weeks, it is nearly impossible to restart it at the same point.
Two weeks from now, if Iran spits in Trump's face, most people will have forgotten about Epic Fury. Trump will have to start a brand new mission.
This is doable militarily, but political optics and political condemnation will be extremely negative. Iran knows this.
The fanatical leadership in Iran and their murderous thugs in IRGC had only one single goal, which was to simply wait it out and to survive.
Iran never had any delusions of defeating America. They simply wanted to hunker down and wait for America to give up and go away.
IRGC and Iranian government officials are popping champagne tonight. They had a plan. They stuck to it. And in the end, they won.
All this happened, after I fell asleep while reading Boswell's Life of Johnson. Else I would have commented sooner.
Yes the IRGC and the other 12ers waited 47 out. The won and 47 lost - big, if the report that the basis of the negotiations is the Iranian 10 point plan is true.
Back when 47 said the Shah's son was week and had no support in Iran, the writing appeared on the wall. 47 commended the people of Iran for fighting for their liberty and freedom, adding help is on the way. I thought that very odd at the time.
We have only to look at another country's people fighting for their liberty and freedom to see how deeply 47 does not give a rat's patoot about people fighting against oppression, cruelty, and murder commuted against them by a strong regime.
We have seen 47 admiration for the strong and resolute leaders who will do what it takes to achieve their goals, no matter how brutal and inherently evil.
As the other people were deceived, so too have the Iranian people been led to believe something that sounded too good to be true, and proved in the end to be hollow.
When 90,000 were murdered and many others blinded by birdshot, 47 remained silent. It does not matter what he was preparing, it was the deafening silence that spoke the loudest.
Now we see 47 siding with the Mullahs, and my heart is sick. My brain wants to ignore all of this and go back to reading Boswell's Life of Johnson.
I don't know what else to say at this sad moment in US history and in this time.