By the end of this year, the war in Afghanistan would be old enough to vote. It would be old enough to be deployed itself to Afghanistan to fight that war. It is the longest, continuous U.S. war in history and there are very few people in the United States who continue to passionately support this failed war.
Over the course of two terms of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and the two terms of Barack Obama, the United States got involved in more war, more covert action, more boots on the ground, more drone strikes, more support for despotic regimes — and those administrations were the so-called adults.
Enter Donald J. Trump. He is a bumbling authoritarian. He has praised U.S. torture tactics. He has criticized the invasion of Iraq, but he added that we should have taken their oil.
President Trump lies with a passion — it’s a pathology. We know all of that. But here’s an uncomfortable truth: Donald Trump probably represents the best hope that we’ve had since 9/11 to actually end some of these forever wars.
The mere reality that he’s saying that he wants to get the U.S. out of these wars requires those of us who oppose U.S. militarism and hegemony to analyze this moment for the opportunity that it possibly presents. And that means being open to something — anything — positive coming from this absolutely insane moment in U.S. history.
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