Foreign desk: ‘Iraq Syndrome’ Is Dead
“Fear of the expression of American military power has now dissolved,” cheers Commentary’s Seth Mandel.
In his first term, President Trump “adopted a modified Murphy’s Law that also governed his predecessor’s foreign policy: Anything that can be Iraq, will be Iraq.”
But that looks to have changed “when President Trump ordered the successful strikes on Iran’s nuclear program.”
Notably, “Ukraine is now benefiting from the Iran strikes because reality has dispelled the fog of Iraq Syndrome and the president is seeing more clearly.”
Fact is, “the ‘just like Iraq’ line of thinking isn’t accurate, and now Trump realizes that.”
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How “fitting that Donald Trump, who rode the effects of Iraq Syndrome all the way to the presidency (twice), would be the one to cure American politics of this malady.”
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