The big difference is that Iran will continue to have the capacity to block the Strait of Hormuz, barring total defeat on the ground and an US occupation. Serbia in 1999 or Iraq in 1991 or Libya in 2011 had no such comparable options to sabotage US interests at all.
A couple of months ago I argued here that the reevaluation and demythologization of Reagan's legacy is something the Republicans have not yet faced up to. Assuming this will ever be done at some point, I think the same assessment of Dubya will also need to happen.
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I'm assuming you're relatively young and/or you didn't follow the culture war back in the old days? I haven't heard her name in a long time but I remembered it after reading it here. She was a rather active rage-baiting feminist culture warrior and talking head back in the days when the US culture war was focused on the issue of sex as opposed to the issue of race, so roughly before 2014.
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