Greeted as Liberators? How Americans Think About U.S. Military Interventions

[Excerpt from essay by Janina Dill, Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.] “Help is on its way,” U.S. President Donald Trump promised in January, as Iranians took to the streets and were killed by the thousands by government forces. Six weeks later, the U.S. military offensive against Iran began. Trump offered several rationales, including the claim that the American attack would provide Iranians an opportunity to bring down t