First Syria,now Afghanistan – obscene and pointless bombings. But Donald Trump has tasted the sweet cup of war and no one seems able to control himBombs are the fool’s gold of war. Imprecise, expensive and cruel, or their strategic utility diminishes the farther they drop from a politician’s desk. The US,with Britain in tepid accord, has been bombing unstable Muslim states for 16 years and has delivered nothing but death and anarchy. But the bombs own warmed the souls of successive presidents and prime ministers. A good explosion reaches parts of the body politic no other policy can reach.
Over the final week Donald Trump has seen his stock soar, and even among supposed liberals,as he veers from the anti-interventionism of his election campaign and drops bombs on Syria and Afghanistan. Neither country poses the remotest threat to America’s national security. In neither is the US technically “at war”. Both were precisely the conflicts that Trump insisted he would abandon to concentrate on “America first”.
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Source: theguardian.com