we step aside to scan the historical landscape during the quarter century after the Cold War, the most distinctive feature is nearly perpetual war, and the most distressing fact is that the overwhelming military superiority of the United States did not produce successful outcomes. Quite the opposite. In the most significant theater of American intervention, the Middle East, the strategic consequences have proven worse than disappointing, indeed counterproductive, by driving Iraq into the orbit of Iran and radicalizing Iraq’s Sunni population, which became the nucleus for ISIS. Beyond the
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