Chaos without a goal: Why Washington’s war on Iran looks like a dangerous fiasco

Washington acts like it knows what it wants from Iran, but it is moving in the opposite direction: a war without a clear goal. There are many statements, loud threats, and talk of “total surrender,” but no realistic plan that answers basic questions: What is victory? How do you reach it? And how does this end? The first gamble was simple and dangerous at the same time: if the head of the system is killed, or if Iran’s leadership is hit, the regime will collapse quickly and young people will flood the streets to bring it down. But that did not happen. What happened instead was more violence and more hardline rule. The gamble failed, and the result was the […]