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Washington's priority should be ending America's role in this fight.
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Non-interventionists should be deeply concerned by the escalating tensions between the two countries.
Trump administration officials discuss plans to deploy 120,000 troops to the Middle East amidst rising tensions in the Persian Gulf.
There is no military solution to be had. It's time to simply come home.
O'Rourke has long been a critic of U.S. intervention abroad.
The push for intervention is no surprise, and it should be given no quarter.
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In Mercenaries 2, China and the U.S. fight over pieces of Venezuela, before the entire country is wrecked by a nuclear warhead.
"Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East?" the president asks-and gets a resounding yes from Republicans and Democrats.
The late Arizona senator's relentless energy and patriotic sense of honor led him to heroic acts of defiance, but also misguided support for disastrous foreign interventions.
The cautious prudence the U.S. desperately needed after a decade and a half of shoot-from-the-hip interventionism has been relegated to a talking point.
In the Arizona senator's waning days, it's an open question whether his familiar vision of a robustly interventionist America idealistically leading the international trading order will survive in Donald Trump's GOP.
Pompeo's past support for regime change, and his current refusal to disavow the idea, disqualify him for the position of America's top diplomat.
Let's look back at our nation's questionable adventures in the Middle East.
Withdrawal and diplomacy is the most prudent path forward in Syria. Not military escalation.
The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention.
A report says the Trump administration is on the verge of sending arms to Ukraine. That's a terrible idea.
Honor the dead by taking service members out of harm's way.
Yes, the president is erratic and incompetent. But prominent GOPers like John McCain have been saying crazy things about North Korea and elsewhere for a quarter century
U.S. fatalities bring America's misadventures overseas into the public eye, but only briefly.
There's not much the U.S. could have done to stop the killings.
The great disrupter of the establishment turns out to be-surprise, surprise-a man of the establishment.
The president's proclamations about Afghanistan are not a plan; they're a letter to Santa Claus.
Amid efforts to get Congress to vote on a new Authorization for Use of Military Force
Lessons about U.S. interventionism fast forgotten.
Don't let Russia hysteria torpedo a better foreign policy.
A certain amount of danger is unavoidable in a multinational world. And the dangers of trying to achieve total security are the worst dangers of all.
Bombs shouldn't be taking the place of aid.
Interventionists will continue invoking Nazi Germany without a moment's interruption
"Guided by the beauty of our weapons."
Trump leaves the impression that Americans shoulder an unnecessarily large military burden because some NATO members underfund their military establishments. But that's nonsense.
Hillary Clinton still calls Libya "smart power at its best," even though it looks more like what President Obama called it earlier this year-a "shit show."
While Lindsey Graham, Hillary Clinton, and the Washington Post guffaw at Gary Johnson, voters seem strangely unpersuaded by the language-policing of interventionists.
But he doesn't want to engage in nation-building!
The retired general shouted out plans to intervene endlessly to rid the planet of "evil."
Chooses Mike Pence as VP
She refuses to learn from every failed foreign intervention.
A bipartisan failure of judgment which shows all the signs of running on repeat.
Obama looking to double down on past mistakes.
Year fifteen of the U.S. in Afghanistan
Waiting for the Libyan government to get it together.
U.S. troops on the ground seeking potential fighting partners.
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