The Foreign Policy Failing Far Graver Than Trump’s War in Iran

Trump’s Iran war is a fiasco. Undertaken without adequate planning by a president deaf to the advice of experts, there is no meaningful measure by which it can be categorized as successful. While Trump regularly notes that many of Iran’s leaders have been killed and much of its military capacity has been degraded, the reality is that in terms of the multiple objectives floated as rationales for launching the war, not only have none been achieved but it appears virtually certain that none will be. The US intelligence community is reporting that Iran’s hardline regime remains in place, and that,…