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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Washington tells Trump after Iran strikes: No more ‘forever war’

The trauma of America’s post-9/11 conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan was evident in Washington on Sunday as Americans reckoned with the implications of Donald Trump’s decision to launch strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities.

Across the political spectrum, varying factions unified under the banner of opposition to the kind of nation-building ground assault that defined America’s two wars launched by the Bush administration.

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