My best guess: There were no casualties from Iran’s missile attack because Iran did not want any casualties. So they deliberately missed.
This strategy is actually quite clever. By launching missiles at American targets, the mullahs can now claim that they retaliated for the killing of that general. But by causing no casualties, Iran avoids a crushing punitive strike by Trump.
I thought that way myself until I saw this video. Who knows what they would have hit, they got shot down before we could find out! Their missiles did take out Saudi targets though so it's not like the Iranian missiles are useless. If the Iranians were trying to hurt us , their total failure has to have them second guessing if they really want to try something else.
“My best guess: There were no casualties from Iran’s missile attack because Iran did not want any casualties. So they deliberately missed.”
One of the network news shows this morning was going on and on that this could have been a mass casualty attack. They said that a mess hall and barracks were hit, but that advanced warning allowed the troops to evacuate and take shelter. I’m not sure what to believe, but I know no Americans were hurt or killed, and that’s the important thing.
“Leaning Right wrote:
My best guess: There were no casualties from Iran’s missile attack because Iran did not want any casualties. So they deliberately missed.”
They didn’t miss, they likely gave us a heads-up (via a neutral nation) because they didn’t’ want a war. .
They may have even set up Soleimani themselves, or at least accepted he was going to have to go after the attack on our embassy (and/or other plans discovered), and decided he was not worth getting Tehran firebombed over if they had taken out many of our troops.
which, it seems, if we didn’t have notice to send our troops to shelter, they might have.
BDA pics showing surprising accuracy at fox news link within this FR link:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3807852/posts?page=8