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The US war on Iran ended up delivering Osama bin Laden's original strategic goal of ending American military presence in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula

Drawn from what Brad DeLong said

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war Armed conflict and preparing for it: military spending, alliances, and what changes when machines are in the loop.

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  1. Brad DeLong Economics professor at the University of California
    Osama bin Laden's one concrete strategic goal was to end the American military presence in the Gulf and on the Arabian Peninsula. A generation later, Donald Trump's war on Iran has apparently delivered it for him

    ↗(SEMI-)CROSSPOST: RICK PERLSTEIN: Bush’s War Is Finally Over: Al Qaeda Has Wonbraddelong.substack.com

    18 Sept 2026

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