Trump is edging towards another American ‘forever war’ in Iran
Iran presents a different challenge: At no point has President Trump explained the existential necessity of the war to the American public.
Iran has kept its regime functioning, despite targeted assassinations on an industrial scale over the past year and pushed the world’s greatest military power to use armed force, in the hope of coercing it back to the negotiating table, to ultimately discuss a return roughly to the status quo of February.
But somehow for President Donald Trump – who once sought a Nobel Peace Prize for ending wars – military force has become a casual measure, a kind of background effect used to cajole Iran into diplomacy.
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