Esper appears to backtrack on Beirut explosion cause after White House pushback

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10. This Is Our Best And Brightest?

"We thought it might have been an attack, some of us speculated it could have been, for example, a Hezbollah arms shipment that blew up, maybe a Hezbollah bomb making facility, who knows?"

While those two things could have happened, the sheer size of this explosion said it was something else as the damage was a hundreds of times greater than what either of the Hezbollah scenarios would have produced. With this kind of brain power in action we have to hope that we don't face a real situation.