The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War

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interesting times Dec. 21, 2018
The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War
By Andrew Sullivan
 

The question before us is a relatively simple one: What would be the criteria for removing our remaining troops from the Iraqi, Syrian, and more general Middle Eastern conflicts? Or, for that matter, from Afghanistan, where we have been trapped for more than 17 long years of still open-ended occupation?

If the answer to that question is that only when each of these countries is a healthy pro-American democracy, and Islamist terrorism has ceased to be an “enduring” threat to the West, then the answer, as the old Bob Mankoff joke has it, is “How about never — is never good for you?”

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/andrew-sullivan-establishment-will-never-say-no-to-a-war.html

[Dexter]

It's disappointing to confront the fact that we've been wasting our blood and treasure for decades, but confront it we must.