America’s Iran quagmire and the failure of strategic memory

There is a particular frustration that comes with being a Cassandra in Washington. You spend three decades writing books titled “Quagmire” and “Sandstorm”, you warn in magazine after magazine, op-ed after op-ed, that America’s compulsive entanglement in Middle Eastern politics would one day produce a catastrophe of its own making — and then you watch, in real time, The post America’s Iran quagmire and the failure of strategic memory appeared first on Asia Times.

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