Good morning,
What’s next for Iran? To think through the possibilities, I’ve returned to an essay published last month by my predecessor Gideon Rose. In it, he predicted that the war in Iran would “conclude as the Vietnam War did in 1973, with an unstable compromise settlement” that leaves many important issues unresolved. The comparison is a useful one, and in some ways, surprisingly hopeful. “There is much loose talk these days about how Washington’s failure to achieve its goals in Iran is a sign of some inexorable broader loss of power,” Gideon wrote. “But the same was said about the debacle in Vietnam—only for the United States to rebound from its loss within a few years and go on to decades of global hegemony.”
Until next week, |
