I was 4 years old when I watched President George W. Bush announce the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I was 24 when I reported on Joe Biden’s abysmal withdrawal from Afghanistan — a calamitous end to a 20-year war that had long passed its expiration date. So when reports began circulating last week about President Trump’s potential intervention in Iran, I sighed and thought, “Here we go again.” I imagined myself covering the withdrawal from this conflict near my retirement, decades from now.
But I’ve changed my mind.
Instead of plunging America into another endless conflict, Trump may have done the opposite: broken the cycle.
This is not Iraq. And if handled strategically, this may actually mark the end of the Middle East’s “forever wars.”
A reckoning long
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