Iran is yet another war that veterans will have trouble coming to terms with

Back when the Super Bowl was in Los Angeles, I was assigned a story to cover the military pilots doing the flyover at the game. I went to Los Alamitos where the NFL was also arranging for Hall of Famer Kurt Warner to go up in a military jet. While waiting for the event, I ended up talking to a fellow Marine who had served in Iraq the same time that I did. We exchanged stories, vented, laughed, griped, and tried to make sense of what we went through. I told him, “I really hope we don’t make the same mistakes again.” He looked at me and said, “I hope not either, but we definitely will.”

This conflict with Iran, which has been called everything from a war to an “excursion,” seemed to come to the beginning of the conclusion for the umpteenth time when President Trump announced that a ceasefire agreement was met. Of course, the president and his team were very cagey over what exactly the agreement’s terms were, leaving politicians, pundits and people to only guess at what was in the deal. Add to the fact that Iran and the U.S. are still exchanging blows and you can only assume it’s not a real peace. The reality is there is no way you could pawn this off as a win.

Yet MAGA talking heads are proclaiming victory.

It remains to be seen if Iran is going to get everything they want and if we are going to get some of the things we asked for. The nuclear question is still up for debate, but we do know that the Iranian regime is still the same (regardless of the Trump logic that the bad ones are gone), their missiles might still be a problem, their proxy terrorist groups still exist, and they can now choke off the Strait of Hormuz anytime they want to.........

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