No sane American president takes office hoping for war. Woodrow Wilson, a 56-year-old Princeton academic, said it would be the irony of fate if his presidency came to be dominated by foreign affairs. He spoke in 1913. Joe Biden came to office in 2021
Memories are still clear of the war in 2006, which exploded after a Hezbollah attack in northern Israel. Nobody wants war again, even as solidarity for the Palestinian cause is stronger than ever.
“In the ongoing confrontations between Israel and Hezbollah/Iran, the former has achieved a tactical success, while the latter has gained a strategic one,” said Gawdat Bahgat of the National Defense University in Washington.