Ghost of Suez haunts Trump’s Iran war

There is a particular kind of strategic catastrophe that announces itself dressed in the garb of bold necessity. History’s statesmen rarely declare that they are about to blunder into an unwinnable quagmire; they speak instead of existential threats forestalled, of windows of opportunity closing, of regimes too dangerous to be allowed to survive. It is […] The post Ghost of Suez haunts Trump’s Iran war appeared first on Asia Times .

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