Why Did Trump Stop The Attack On Iran?

  Last Thursday,  Trump called off an attack on Iran which had been planned as retaliation for Iran shooting down a drone over its waters.

   For some reason, people who don't believe Trump's official story "Killing 150 people as revenge for an unmanned drone, is not proportional".

  Why not?  That is obviously true.   Killing 150 people in retaliation for no person dying is clearly not moral or right, in any moral compendium.

    So, many people have come up with their own fanciful explanations.  The most bizarre one is that the US called off the retaliatory attack because they suddenly realized that Iran was capable of shooting down objects at high altitudes.
    This makes no sense.  Iran shoots down an object at high altitude and the US plans an attack based on that excuse, but then calls it off because they realized that Iran can shoot down objects at high attitudes?   Ridiculous.

    More likely is the story in this article.   The US, which did manage to attack Iran with the Stuxnet virus a few years ago (and then the virus spread.  Whoops!), thought that they could do it again.  They attacked the computer controls of Iran's defense apparatus, thinking that once Iran was helpless, they could attack without consequences.

    But when they realized that they had failed and Iran would be able to defend itself, they called off the attack.
    That makes sense.  I still appreciate that, for the first time in my memory, a president talked about dead bodies on the receiving side of US aggression.   That is a refreshing change from the usual emphasis of Americans Only.