Not So ‘Mission Accomplished’?

Foreign Affairs

Not So ‘Mission Accomplished’?

The Iran intervention could well turn into an open-ended misadventure.

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In the wake of the 1991 Gulf War victory, then-President George H.W. Bush rode on a wave of public opinion that would not carry him to reelection. Celebrating the recent victory in Kuwait...