Where's the exit? For Trump, harder to get out of the Iran war than into it
USA TODAY
On week three of the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, the war is expanding and the consequences are intensifying, including at the gas pump.
A hard truth for presidents: It's easier to get into a war than to get out of it.
Just ask Harry Truman about Korea, Lyndon Johnson about Vietnam, George W. Bush about Iraq.
And now Donald Trump about Iran.
When Trump announced in a social media video on Feb. 28 that the United States and Israel were striking Iran, he vowed that their overwhelming military advantage would crush the Islamic republic's navy, its missile capabilities and its nuclear potential − perhaps even overturn the government itself − in a war he suggested might last four to five weeks.
Now on week three, the United States has destroyed much of Iran's armed forces and its stores of missiles. Its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed.
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