Missiles, drones and nukes: What Trump's war has gained − and cost
Has the Iran war been worth it?
With a Memorandum of Understanding signed and 60 days of negotiations underway, the ceasefire is too fragile and the conflict too fresh to answer that question with confidence. But an early rundown underscores what has been gained − and what it has cost − since President Donald Trump ordered strikes against Iran on Feb. 28.
At the start, he predicted a conflict that would last four or five weeks, suggesting the sort of easy victory and quick spoils that followed the U.S. operation in January to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Instead, the Iran conflict is now four months old and counting, despite Trump's regular, optimistic predictions that peace was just around the corner. As modern predecessors from Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush have discovered before him, wars are easier to get into than out of.
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