Congress...

If Congress wants to keep the forever war in the Middle East going, then there’s an easy solution: vote on it!
 But you can bet they won’t do it; they don’t want to be on the hook for when it inevitably turns into a quagmire costing the US billions in blood and treasure, just like every single other war we have been involved in has been for the last decade and a half.

And then there’s the pundit class, everyone considers Trump a know-nothing, unstable maniac,  yet are perfectly okay with him leading the US military into a longterm military engagement with countless complicated geopolitical factors at play.

He has markedly increased the number of drone strikes in the region from the Obama administration despite the rules of engagement have been loosened and more civilians are at risk of a fiery death than ever before.

He has backed an appalling war in Yemen leading to the world’s largest famine. And his military budget has exploded. 

It is mind boggling that we, as a nation, are unable to appreciate that thousands of Americans will now no longer be in harm’s way, fighting a war that Congress never debated and that much of American public never even knew was happening.

They are stationed in too many countries to count, fighting enemies that didn’t exist when the law was passed. 

The entire post-9/11 military strategy has been an abject failure. It has cost trillions of dollars, millions of lives, and there is no indication anyone is better off, whether it’s the American public or innocent civilians in the Middle East.

In the meantime, we’ve engendered hatred from multiple generations of Afghans, Iraqis, Yemenis, Syrians, and many others.   Just a thought.