There are many areas of defense or attack that only the President can command.
We are at war and not up to 5th string people to get in the middle.
This POS President doesn’t want to do his job and his chosen people feel that can’t tell him that was an attempted attack.
Such as?
And you know for certain that any one of these many scenarios would have been appropriate in this case?
Gonna nuke Nigeria?
C'mon, man....