Iran’s last ‘impenetrable’ nuke factory exposed: Secret underground target Trump must now destroy… or we’re doomed

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America has been here before. A righteous cause. A brutal enemy. Military success that races ahead of political planning.

Then comes the gradual shift in military and political objectives known as ‘mission creep,’ followed by quagmire. 

This is what happened in Iraq following the US occupation that accompanied Saddam Hussein’s ousting in 2003. The mission of regime change evolved into nation-building, with the project of de-Baathification — banning Saddam’s Baath Party and purging its officials — generating the conditions for the revival of sectarian violence over the next decade.

Mark Dubowitz is the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.