The operation rendered our enemies' air defense demonstrably futile.
This is what I'd call fortressing the farm. But you think otherwise. Tell me.
You’re missing the point. The benefits derived from the operation are not the issue.
The issue is that the State Department and the Administration are insisting on going through with a deal with North Korea just as the North Koreans have been caught red-handed in an activity the shows irrefutably that they can’t be trusted to abide by the terms of the deal, and that they have no intention of abiding by the deal.
In short, the North Koreans have shown that the deal/agreement is not going to work. Nonetheless, State and the Administration have also shown by their attempts to spin the issue that they don’t care if the deal works. GETTING the deal is what matters to them, they mean to have it regardless, and they want Congress and the US taxpayers to pay for it.
And now they know it. I hope to God that Israel hit a target of immense need of hitting because the air defense vulnerability was the real secret. Syria, NK, Iran ... they all know what was hit. Kook Kucinich can't tell them much that they don't know unless some fool briefs Congress on methods. But please think it through ... wouldn't we be much better served if Syria and Iran thought they were sitting fat, dumb, and happy behind the "best" air defense system that money could buy? Wouldn't it have been cool that our guys can penetrate without detection? Well, that cat is out of the bag now and it will hurt unless Israel saved our bacon by making that strike - and they probably did. And I do hope our Air Force was lurking to lend a hand if those brave Israelis got in trouble. We damn well better have their back because they're walking point for us.