An Optimistic View of the War in Iran

There is no shortage of doom and gloom circulating around the week-old war in Iran. A majority of Americans currently oppose the war according to the most recent reporting. Highly-regarded experts such as Karim Sadjadpour and Vali Nasr have expressed doubts about the prospects of the war. There are no shortage of examples how both US and Israeli interventions in their neighboring countries created significant blowback and contributed to the region’s overall instability over the past several decades. The failures from Libya to Afghanistan are many and the successes are nearly non-existent. However, history is a poor guide to the future and even the experts are wrong sometimes. While I’m personally skeptical of the current conflict as I laid out in my previous post, there is value in exploring a more optimistic view of the war.