'Most of the people we had in mind are dead.' It's tempting to go with the description of this 'war of choice' as the Trump-Netanyahu war: could this have been as bad without a narcissistic idiot and a psychopath clinging to power? However, what are the systemic reasons for the assaults, like the US interest in preventing emergency of regional powers? Numbers of dead need more exposure. https://www.salon.com/2026/03/03/people-we-had-in-mind-are-dead-trump-admits-us-preferred-successors-to-ayatollah-were-killed/