Predictions that U.S. President Donald Trump’s war in Iran could become a sequel to George W. Bush’s disastrous adventure in Iraq have dominated the public debate , especially concerns about the negative ramifications of externally imposed regime change. Yet while Iraq looms large in public memory, Syria offers a more instructive lesson. Syria’s trajectory—from the outbreak of anti-regime protests in 2011 to the fall of Bashar al-Assad in 2024 and the subsequent leadership transition—provides a

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