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Those can be replaced. The damage to US reputation and influence will last the rest of our lives.

Not just HN, just about all social media except far-right Trumpist echo-chambers have been calling it a Iran win or at least a US loss.

Buddy France lost it's country and still won WW2

It's the war, not the battle.

Boy is that a terrible analogy. France "won" nothing, they actively collaborated with the Nazis, and they were pretty useless for most of the war.