No. of Recommendations: 21
The American Conservative nails it again:
"The war’s outcome has been worse than the most pessimistic predictions...
Neither strategic nor tactical goals were achieved. The US did not replace the Iranian regime with new, moderate leaders.
It failed to seize Iran’s highly enriched uranium or eliminate Iran’s nuclear program. Worse, most reports suggest Iran has retained much of its military capacity, including access to large portions
of its missile and drone stockpiles. Finally, the war has created a new, bedeviling problem. The Strait of Hormuz, once the passageway for 20 percent of the world’s oil and liquified natural gas,
remains effectively closed."
"The results of the war are dismal. The costs of the military failure, on the other hand, are significant—and not only in monetary terms."
"The Pentagon has told Congress that the first 40 days of war, cost $29 billion, but this is almost certainly a vast underestimate. The DoD has been ambiguous about what is included in this estimate,
but at the very least it does not account for the massive damage to U.S. military infrastructure or the full costs of replacing U.S. military aircraft and other equipment lost in the conflict.
The full price tag is likely to be twice as high as DoD’s early tally."
"The war has revealed the fragility of U.S. military power and the clear limits on what it can accomplish in the modern era. Instead of maintaining the fiction that after the war U.S. foreign policy can return to normal, policymakers should face reality: The period of U.S. military dominance—and of American empire—is over."
"The bottom line is this: The war has not made Americans safer, but they will be paying for it for decades anyway."
Lastly who remembers these lies:
"I will not send you to fight and die in stupid foreign wars that never end!" ~Trump
"I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars!" ~Trump
Why do so many MAGAs like being lied to?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-iran-w... 