All sides in the Gulf war are at risk of overplaying their hands
IN WAR, WHAT at first seems logical can, in hindsight, prove to have been foolhardy. Having repelled its Iraqi invaders in 1982, Iran spurned a ceasefire and pushed ahead with a counter-invasion. America overthrew Saddam Hussein within weeks in 2003, only to bog itself down in nearly a decade of counter-insurgency. Both had their reasons:


















