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Scott Taylor: No ‘forever’ war in Middle East for Canada

We couldn’t participate even if cause was just

We are well into U.S. President Donald Trump’s “special military operation” against Iran, which the Americans have undertaken in conjunction with Israel.

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What is clear thus far is that the comically named Operation Epic Fury is not going to be the whirlwind success that Trump initially promised to deliver.

What remains unclear is what exactly Operation Epic Fury ultimately hopes to achieve.

The initial claim was that Trump felt the Iranians were not negotiating in good faith to obtain a new nuclear arms treaty with the United States. Based on Trump’s “feelings,” Operation Epic Fury was launched to eliminate the possibility of an Iranian first-strike nuclear attack on U.S. bases in the Middle East.

It is firmly established that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard does not possess a delivery system capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to the distant continental United........

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