American History Teaches That Operation Epic Fury Is Not Another ‘Forever War’

At first, conventional minds worried that President Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran would draw us into another “forever war” like Iraq or Afghanistan, or even Vietnam.

Now, as those fears recede, the worry is that he’s not going for sufficient regime change in Tehran, and that we’ll be drawn into “mowing the grass” again if the Islamic Republic tries to revive its nuclear program or ballistic missile arsenal.  

Which is ironic, since trying to engineer regime change was precisely what drew us into protracted conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

These contradictory criticisms not only ignore Trump’s skill so far in decimating the Iranian regime—perhaps fatally—but also ignore American history.