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Trump Learned the Lessons of Iraq
President Donald Trump has finally moved the United States past the traumas of the Iraq War. With the bombing of Iranian ...
This is mostly false. In August 2004, Trump said in an interview with Esquire that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein never had weapons of mass destruction at his disposal. But he made more ambiguous ...
The failures of a foreign technocratic nation-building project turned many Americans into cynics and panic-mongers. Trump ...
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Donald Trump Has Won on Iran
The American eschatological impulse to war is to achieve a definite victorious outcome, even when the costly extra effort is ...
This time Trump is considering military intervention against the views of US intelligence, headed by Tulsi Gabbard.
When President Donald Trump speaks about Iran these days, Americans listen nervously. This week, Trump claimed credit for ...
One bone of contention between 2016 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, is that she, famously, voted in favor of the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a member ...
Donald Trump has harangued generals at the Pentagon over what he’s called the “loser war” in Afghanistan and their failure to end it. He has dismissed Syria as “sand and death,” and ...
Donald Trump wants to “bomb the hell” out of Iraq’s oil fields in order to strike at ISIS. That may not be such a good idea, CNN’s military analysts say.
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon announced plans to reduce troops levels to 2,500 in Afghanistan and Iraq, leaving a residual force in both countries as President Donald Trump is scheduled to leave office.
Donald Trump said Thursday he “may have” signaled in a September 2002 interview with Howard Stern that he was in favor of invading Iraq. “Yeah, I may have,” Trump said in a CNN Republican ...
During President Donald Trump's unannounced visit to troops in Iraq on Wednesday—his first trip to troops deployed to a combat zone since he was elected—he admitted he had been concerned about ...