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Forever War
March 31, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Pete Hegseth Says It’s Up to Trump to Say When Iran War Is Over
Cool, so we could be at war forever.
March 17, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Says He’s “Not Afraid” of Iran War Dragging on Indefinitely
Donald Trump brushed off a question about the war ending up the same as Vietnam.
July 28, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The Forever Wars Aren’t Ending. They’re Just Being Rebranded.
The president is pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. But many will be headed to other war zones where America’s military grinds on.
June 4, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Dan Crenshaw’s Paranoid Delusions of a “Woke” Military
Our death-dealing institutions are no less lethal, but Republicans are just that desperate for another front in the culture war.
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