Several times in the last 60 years, the United States fought a war in which it not only failed but came to realize long before the fighting ended that it was likely to fail—yet fought on anyway.

Nick Catoggio is a staff writer at The Dispatch and is based in Texas. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 16 years gradually alienating a populist readership at Hot Air. When Nick isn’t busy writing a daily newsletter on politics, he’s … probably planning the next day’s newsletter.

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