💬 Opinion 4d ago · Peter Van Buren

How Will the Iran War End?

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How Will the Iran War End?

The U.S. is unlikely to win on maximalist terms.



















(Photo by Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP via Getty Images)







“Tell me how this ends,” a young General David Petraeus asked early in the Iraq War, after Saddam Hussein’s army had largely been defeated. The United States is extraordinarily good at the first half of wars an

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