Iran is openly attacking our infrastructure. There’s only one possible response

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A British newspaper column argues that Iran's cyber activity against UK infrastructure amounts to an act of war demanding immediate retaliation, citing intelligence that had previously assessed such an attack as 'unlikely.'

The piece, written by a retired army officer turned commentator, treats the faultiness of that prior assessment as self-evident and uses it to argue for one specific response, though the source material does not detail what actually occurred beyond the framing of an attack having taken place.

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There is a special genre of argument in which the failure of an assessment becomes proof that the opposite assessment is correct, and it is always deployed by someone who was not on the hook for either. Note how the column is generous with the word ‘war’ and stingy with the details of what actually happened — an inversion that would embarrass a used-car lot. When a retired officer's op-ed is your intelligence product, the intelligence isn't the thing being tested.

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