Karen Kwiatkowski joined as Middle East Spectator carried Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi crediting God for victory, then adding:
"we did not think it would be this easy"
Set the boast aside and the conversation's diagnosis is uncomfortable because none of it is new.
A budget eight times the next country's never meant effectiveness, it meant an acquisition bureaucracy that eats money.
America looked like a power with staying power because it sat in Iraq and Afghanistan for twenty years, and nobody noticed how fragile the logistics underneath were until sailors spent 200 days at sea on thin rations.
The generals, the discussion suggests, carry some of this, having oversold what the force could do to the men above them.
But the deepest reason has nothing to do with Iran.
A war that Congress never declared is a war the country never committed to, and seventy percent of Americans oppose it.
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