This all boils down to one guy sitting in a room....who is the only one who can order DoD to cross borders and flex muscles, and he judged the threat of a failed operation to be a problem for the election campaign. Pure, simple, and the end of the discussion.
By the next day, the remaining characters in this drama are stuck with a opera which the texts don’t fit. So, you find some script writer to write a fake scenario, which needs one four-star fake talker (similar to Secretary of State Colin Powell’s speech at the UN for example to defend the war). And you disengage yourself from the mess.
Sadly, pieces of this story just never did equal facts. Fake story, fake leadership, fake election, and fake results. Wonder why so many people are disenchanted with DC today.
And some hapless YouTube user that is inexplicably STILL behind bars!