Trump, the draft dodger, doesn't see how his war with Iran will result with same failure as Lyndon Johnson's defeat in Vietnam where our bombs in the North and our soldiers in the South won every military ecounter yet still lost to an intractable Viet Cong

 

Trump Seethes as Iran War Spirals Anew With No End in Sight

By Josh Wingrove, Catherine Lucey, and Eric Martin

July 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT

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July 24, 2026 at 3:53 PM EDT

Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin are drastically different men, but they do have one important thing in common: Each thinks he is the smartest person in any room he enters. Alas, though, because they have all done the dumbest thing you can do as a leader — surround yourself with sycophants — they have all blundered into dead-end wars from which they can extricate themselves today only by eating a banquet of crow.

 

Three World Leaders. Three Incredibly Bad Decisions.

By Thomas L. Friedman

Opinion Columnist