Don’t Ask How This War Ends
The Atlantic · 21 Sep 2026

Don’t Ask How This War Ends

It is, unfortunately, the wrong question. During the 2003 Iraq War, then–Major General David Petraeus famously said to the journalist and historian Rick Atkinson, “Tell me how this ends.” It is the obvious query to be posed about the conflict with Iran, but it requires a different answer. In the mid


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