{"id":214384,"date":"2026-03-17T05:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214384"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:12:52","slug":"utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214384","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Utter Disaster for All Involved&#8221;: Is Trump&#8217;s War on Iran Repeating Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Forever War&#8221; in Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Iranian missiles strike military, residential and economic targets in neighboring Gulf states, we speak to Al Jazeera\u2019s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara in Doha, Qatar. Bishara says Iran\u2019s targeting of U.S. allies in the region may be an Iranian calculation that there is \u201ca cost to be paid for American interests\u201d as Saudi Arabia&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/3\/4\/marwan_bishara\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Iranian missiles strike military, residential and economic targets in neighboring Gulf states, we speak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qtr"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214384-utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214384-utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214384-utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214384-utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214384-utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214384-utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214384-utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq.jpg",1920,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214384-utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214384-utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214384-utter-disaster-for-all-involved-is-trumps-war-on-iran-repeating-bushs-forever-war-in-iraq-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=29\" rel=\"category\">Qatar<\/a>","tag_info":"Qatar","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}