As Iraq moves further into the Iranian orbit, the U.S. can’t afford to relinquish its residual clout in the country.
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran. Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos by Mehmet Eser/Anadolu & Iranian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images).
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It has become a commonplace for Americans to describe our current war with Iran as stuck in a kind of limbo, neither full war nor real peace. We’re not the only ones. Iraq finds itself caught in a limbo of its own, between America and Iran, between the tolerable and the intolerable, between progress and relapse.
