I don’t know Mike Nelson, but I can tell that he enjoys a challenge.

Before he began contributing to The Dispatch, Nelson served in the Army Special Forces. Go figure that his latest piece for our publication would dial the degree of difficulty all the way up by trying to imagine a nondisastrous outcome to the war in Iran.

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