After a decade of misconstrued (Iraq) and
overextended (Afghanistan) wars, which saw thousands of young American men and
women killed, maimed and psychologically damaged, not to speak of the many
thousands of casualties on the other side, the American people are sick and
tired of this series of military misadventures.
Barack Obama’s pirouette away from an
unfathomable military adventure in Syria was, down deep, appreciated by
the public, despite the torrent of propaganda from the Tea Party, with its undertones
of racism and tinges of Confederate symbolism, depicting the president as weak
and indecisive.
But Trumpolino is known for aggression
rather than diplomacy. Even the Pentagon doesn’t ask for the kind of military
budget he will be slashing public services and much needed programs to pay for.
From war, you cannot expect peace of any kind other than that of the absence of life, the wind
blowing through devastated cities and villages.
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