Jeff Schogol
Since the war against Iran began on Feb. 28, the U.S. military has provided updates on how many targets have been struck, how many Iranian ships have been sunk, and how many combat sorties have been flown. But no one in the U.S. government seems to be able to say how the war ends and what comes next.
We’ve been here before. U.S. troops routed the Taliban in 2001, but that wasn’t enough. They stayed for 20 years in a failed attempt to turn Afghanistan into a democracy, even though top U.S. officials knew the mission was hopeless. The U.S. military’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 destroyed Saddam Hussein’s regime in weeks, but that wasn’t enough either. American forces spent the next eight years battling insurgents and later returned to fight the Islamic State group, or ISIS. Twenty-three years after the mission in Iraq was supposedly accomplished, U.S. troops are still there.
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