It was supposed to be easy. In the weeks after President Trump authorized the military raid to snatch Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, he would tell pretty much any audience about how flawlessly the operation had gone. During a late-January phone call with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who was seething after federal immigration agents killed two of his residents, the president dominated the conversation by going into great detail about the Caracas incursion. Trump told Walz what he was telling scores of friends and advisers: The U.S. military could do anything, and he had future operations in mind. The Iran war has not quite gone to plan. The U.S. military, working alongside the Israeli armed forces, pummeled its targets in the first fortnight of war and significantly damaged the Iranian military's capabilities, while also carrying out what is believed to be the deadliest accidental American attack on civilians in decades. Iran's supreme leader was killed, but the nation's hard-line...
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