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Maybe, but if you drew a Venn diagram of policy The Great Satan passes and policy proposed by right wing think thanks, you’d get a circle.
You are correct. I have no doubt that when deciding to go to war with Iran, someone looked at the Brookings reports. But I doubt very highly that they made the decision to go to war BECAUSE of the reports from almost 20 years ago.
They were talking about invading Iran in the aftermath of 9/11 already. "The seven nation plan".
And even preceding that, it fits into an apparent wider strategic plan for NATO to "rebuild" the former Roman empires borders. I can't find the source now but it was a French outlet who reported on a NATO meeting just after they began their atrocities against Yugoslavia in 1999 where this was apparently talked about.
But yeah, youre right. They probably referred to the paper and got high on their own supply but the decision to actually go to war was already made. Similar papers and write ups were made about how the US could defeat Russia via Ukraine also.