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Jiang uses the 2003 Iraq War as the misleading precedent: America learned from beating a depleted Iraq without air defenses and wrongly assumed Iran would collapse just as quickly.
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Iraq WAR 2003
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Well, so the major sign of an empire decline is hubris. If an empire was capable of self -reflection, if an empire recognized the..."
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Jiang says the current war is not unfolding as he expected because, unlike Iraq 2003, the United States did not even perform the old bureaucratic rituals of public persuasion, legal process, and rules-based justification.
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"Well, so the major sign of an empire decline is hubris. If an empire was capable of self -reflection, if an empire recognized the..."
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"And so they wouldn't do that. But obviously they did do that, and that allowed Iran to become the regional superpower of that region...."
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"This is not, this is not turning out the way I thought it would turn out. Because if you go back to the 2003..."
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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