Trump, Lost in The Failure of His War, Blinks by Spencer Ackerman. ⇒
24 March 2026, early afternoon
The United States of America lost one war to Iran, via proxies. That was the 2003-2011 occupation of Iraq. Now it has lost a war to Iran in the open field. Let that sink in. Do these losses feel like humiliation? If so, that’s residual American Exceptionalism nesting within your soul. After all, what about the U.S. experience in the Middle East for the last 25 years has given you reason to think that the U.S. would have prevailed in destroying the Islamic Republic of Iran? Doesn’t that history, when examined outside the funhouse of American Exception, instead tell an alternative story of the U.S. launching wars it doesn’t understand how to win? Especially since this war is on Iranian soil, launched by the Islamic Republic’s principal adversaries, with the stakes existential for the regime?
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