Condoleezza Rice: What the U.S. Has Accomplished in Iran

This all seems reasonable--though I'm not in a position to evaluate her claims.

Some red-team types seem to suggest that maybe regime change was never such a reasonable goal--so it's not really a failure that we didn't achieve it. I don't know whether Dr. Rice means to suggest that or not.

Anyway: if true, I wish we'd have been informed of that earlier.

Though we weren't really informed of anything...

Dunno which was worse: Bush's long, lie-filled lead-up to Iraq, or Trump's precipitous leap into the Iran conflict. No lies in the latter...because there was no lead-up... Of course afterward we got the long, ever-shifting string of false and unreasonable claims (We've already won and all the rest...can hardly even remember them now.)

I've always respected Rice for being pretty straight with us about Iraq. I still remember a major interview in which she laid out the case for invasion. The interviewer--can't remember who it was now, but good on him/her--said, roughly (IIRC): Well, that seems like an insufficiently strong case...but I guess you've got other evidence you can't tell us about? And Rice (again, IIRC) said, basically: No, that's our case. Really, I think you got to respect that.