Opinion | Has Trump started another forever war? Not if Americans can help it
As the US ramps up aggression against Iran, fears of another full-scale invasion in the Middle East abound. Thankfully, all hope is not lost

Being a buzzkill is an unfortunate but necessary part of my job. As much as I know first-hand the joy of finding that perfect quote to emphasise a point, I also know that all too often said quote is too good to be true.
Some errors I’ve weeded out during the editing process over the years: “Be the change you wish to see in the world”; there’s no written trace of Mahatma Gandhi having said this. “Jaw, jaw is better than war, war”; that was Harold Macmillan rather than Winston Churchill. “Let China sleep. For when she wakes, the world will tremble”; this wasn’t from Napoleon Bonaparte but a line from the 1963 Charlton Heston film 55 Days at Peking.
Here’s the thing, though. That’s not quite what Karl Marx wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. More importantly, this will not be an exact repeat of 2003 – it has the potential to be much worse, yet at the same time there is more reason to be hopeful.