Iran: The Goal Was Always Reintegration, Not Containment

I have said countless times that Technocracy moves on infrastructure, not outright confrontation. The Iran war is a case in point.
The American people watched a war and waited for a victory. They are still waiting, because the thing they were promised and the thing that was delivered are not the same thing. They expected containment. They expected an adversary beaten back, a nuclear program dismantled, a hostile regime made smaller. What they received was a reconstruction contract.
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