Those opposed to yesterday’s Iran war have a stake in preventing tomorrow’s, to break the entanglement of the United States in conflicts it regrets more quickly and more intensely the more they keep happening. This mission is hardly impossible. Military defeat — which is what the United States just suffered — has repeatedly compelled Americans to re-evaluate the severity of a threat they could not eliminate.

 

Trump’s Iran Debacle Could Be a Gift for America

By Robert Malley and Stephen Wertheim

Mr. Malley was the special envoy for Iran from 2021 to 2023. Mr. Wertheim is a historian of U.S. foreign policy.