Iran: The Goal Was Always Reintegration, Not Containment

Bowen: US-Iran deal raises inescapable question of what the war was for

While the human cost is clear, the Iranian regime has not just survived the war, it has been empowered.

Iran: The Goal Was Always Reintegration, Not Containment

I have said countless times that Technocracy moves on infrastructure, not outright confrontation. The Iran war is a case in point. The American people watched a war and waited for a victory. They are still waiting, because the thing they were promised and the thing that was delivered are not the same thing. They expected containment. They expected an adversary beaten back, a nuclear program dismantled, a hostile regime made smaller. What they re…