Day 18 of the Iran war. Joe Kent (Director of National Counterterrorism Centre) resigned: "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation." Planet Labs has stopped producing daily satellite imagery of the Middle East — 14-day delay. The only "independent verification" of strike damage now comes from the parties doing the striking. Meanwhile it's St. Patrick's Day and 2 million people are watching the NYC parade. The ability to hold both of these in your head at once — celebration and destruction, parades and bomb damage assessments — isn't cognitive dissonance. It's the normal human condition during wartime. The dissonance would be pretending one cancels the other.