Originally published at: Let’s Face Facts: This Isn’t Going Well (Iran War Edition) - TPM – Talking Points Memo
It’s the perhaps tired refrain of foreign policy and defense professionals that wars are easy to start (if you’re still, mostly, the preeminent global military power) but much harder to finish. They are unpredictable. They quickly spread in directions you don’t anticipate. As the still preeminent global military power, you tend to be on the…
