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There’s a dark irony in the fact that the U.S. war on Iran is being waged under the auspices of the same generation that served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers returned battle-scarred and cynical about American intervention, especially in the Middle East. And over the last two decades, scores of them ran for—and won—federal political offices, including Tammy Duckworth, Ron DeSantis, Seth Moulton, Dan Crenshaw, Tom Cotton, Eugene Vindman, Ruben Gallego, Mikie Sherrill, Adam Kinzinger, and many others.
