The Islamic Republic of Iran kills its own people and sponsors terrorism in Israel, Lebanon, Britain and far beyond. The world will be a better place when this brutish regime is destroyed. Unfortunately, the reckless US assault on Iran has made this prospect even less likely than it was.

This war was doomed from the beginning. It is important now to absorb the lessons of this US-led calamity because it is very unlikely to be the last such rash military venture – especially as Washington struggles incoherently and haphazardly to manage the US’s decline from its hegemonic, superpower status.

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