The Iran war is just over a month old, and the prevailing opinion among the commentariat is that it’s already a “ quagmire ,” if not a “ catastrophe .” Critics have compared the conflict to the United States’ invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan , its intervention in the Korean War , Russia’s invasion of Ukraine , and, of course, the most traumatic U.S. foreign-policy debacle, Vietnam . But the Iran war is not a debacle. It is a dilemma. From an operational perspective, the war is going reasonably