Since the Iranian sponsored assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to the United States was revealed to the public, I have been struck by the commentary and conventional wisdom in the media that has downplayed the likelihood of the attack. Despite the evidence laid out by the Justice Department and the FBI, some pundits have suggested that the attack would have been impossible to pull off and expressed shock that Iran would consider using Mexican drug cartels for a terrorist attack on American soil.

Presumably these same “experts” never would have imagined that jihadists would use airplanes as missiles to attack America on Sept. 11, 2001. Indeed this was the very conclusion reached by the 9/11 Commission Report:

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