Excellent article, Andrew. Iona Craig really knows her stuff. Still no evidence of the valuable intelligence the U.S. supposedly gathered in that attack, but there is plenty of evidence for the pointless destruction of lives. As for Trump, his failure to mention their deaths speaks volumes.
More and more, we'll find that the Trump administration is a better recruiter for jihadists than anything the ISIS propaganda machine could have come up with. It's as if certain key players want to throw gas on the fire, to create an excuse for all-out American-style blow-the-f*#k-out-'em warfare.
Bannon's fundamentalist view of history is all the rationale that's needed to do that, conscience-free.