Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“Occasionally, the prediction of a quick victory at the start of a war turns out to be true, as it did for the United States in the 1898 Spanish American War and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Far more often, though, a predicted ‘cakewalk’ turns into a multi-year human meat grinder. Even if subsequent events do not produce a bloodbath on a scale as monstrous as the Civil War and World War I, the fighting frequently becomes a prolonged, futile, and counterproductive mission. America’s military interventions in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan all fall into that category. There are multiple reasons to conclude that a war against Iran would be the opposite of a ‘cakewalk.'” (03/21/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/war-on-iran-would-be-no-cakewalk/