With Iran war, US goes it alone like never before

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the United States launched the 1991 Gulf War, then-president George H.W. Bush boasted of building a broad coalition unseen in decades. When his son attacked Iraq in 2003, he faced wide criticism, but secured several steadfast US allies.

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