But our readers may pardon us for publishing back-to-back issues that feature stories about the Iran War on the cover. Despite President Donald Trump’s oft-repeated promises that the war is just an “excursion,” peace has failed to heave into view three months on. Jennifer Kavanagh addresses the damage already done to American military policy. It makes grim reading, and emphasizes the need to end the war as soon as possible. Harrison Berger writes about one of the thorniest obstacles to such a conclusion: the war’s Lebanese front, which has proven a consistent sticking point in the on-again, off-again negotiations between Washington and Tehran. Andrew Day examines the political casualties of the war, and, specifically, the future of the notional mascot of the peace wing of the Republican coalition: Vice President J.D. Vance.
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