Dems beat war drums to beat Trump

There may 101 reasons for Dems to defeat Trump November 3. But promoting perpetual U.S. warfare around the Middle East and Africa should not be among them. Trump gained a fair number of his 63,000,000 votes in 2016 charging our forever wars were stupid and should be ended. Instead of leading on ending such murderous wars, Dems ceded that worthy goal to Trump. While his overall foreign policy has been dreadful, even garnering him a House impeachment, he did two things deserving notice: didn’t start a new US military incursion (Obama disastrously intervened in Libya and Syria) and began troop withdrawals in Syria, Germany and most importantly in Afghanistan, scheduled for completion next May.

But that most worthy of foreign policy goals won’t happen, thanks to presidential politics. Dems figure, if Trump wants to end a 19 year long failed and immoral war, our campaign strategy must be to oppose it. A number of House Dems, led by Jason Crow (D-CO), joined hands with virulent Republican warmonger Liz Cheney (R-WY) to put up a wall stopping the Afghan troop pullout; indeed, ensuring that war goes on forever. Crow’s amendment to the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) consigns Trump’s pullout to the ashcan of failed Trump policies, albeit this one saving thousands of Afghan lives and a few Americans as well.

Dems could focus on those aforementioned Trump foreign policy failures to ensure his defeat. Let us count the ways.

1. Trump’s dropped over 20,000 bombs on Afghanistan in 41 months, more than Bush Jr. or Obama in their first 48 months. Trump killed untold thousands of civilians, making good on his promise to “bomb the shit out of Islamic State”.

2. Trump ratcheted up endless war secrecy, hiding actual troop deployments for three years and dropping the monthly Air Power Summary last February. When it comes to endless war, we’re on a ‘need to know’ basis.

3. Trump has vetoed several Congressional measures to end our support of Saudi Arabia’s catastrophic destruction of Yemen and its 24,000,000 souls. His reasoning? We need Saudi Arabia’s weapons purchases.

4. Trump backed a coup in Bolivia and several in Venezuela.

5. Trump kills thousands in Venezuela, North Korea, Iran and Cuba, among others, with dastardly economic sanctions.

6. Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement, likely the most war saving measure of this century, and came within minutes of bombing Iran over a frivolity downing of a U.S. drone.

The Dems are AWOL on all these Trump failures begging to be addressed. Nope, they’d rather stow fear that ending endless war is the mark of an unfit president. That is a tragedy that ensures the downward spiral of the American Experiment.