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Trump, Forever Wars and Iraq Syndrome

By Byron York
Wednesday, March 04 2026

For many years in the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s, discussions of the use of U.S. military force suffered from an effect known as Vietnam Syndrome. Many Americans simply could not consider any proposed U.S. military action without seeing visions of a Vietnam-style quagmire in which American troops would be stuck for decades in a costly war without victory. Vietnam Syndrome finally went away after American success in the first Gulf War. But not too many years later, Vietnam Syndrome was replaced by Iraq Syndrome, which is a fear that using U.S. military power will lead to an Iraq-style quagmire…

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