[Peace-discuss] LTE to CUN-G

[C G Estabrook]

Patrick Buchanan points out that “...in 2016, Trump ran as a different kind of Republican, an opponent of the Iraq War and an anti-interventionist who wanted to get along with Russia's Vladimir Putin and get out of these Middle East wars...” 

In office, the president has reversed his position.  “Trump has talked of pulling all U.S. troops out of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the troops are still there. Though Trump came into office promising to get along with the Russians, he sent Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine and announced a pullout from Ronald Reagan's 1987 INF treaty that outlawed all land-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles...

Now, remarkably enough, “the center of gravity of U.S. politics is shifting toward the Trump position of 2016. And the anti-interventionist wing of the GOP is growing. And when added to the anti-interventionist and anti-war wing of the Democratic Party on the Hill, together, they are able, as on the Yemen War Powers resolution, to produce a new bipartisan majority. By the primaries of 2020, foreign policy  will be front and center, and the Democratic Party will have captured the ‘no-more-wars’ political high ground that Candidate Donald Trump occupied in 2016.”

Perhaps. But at the moment, both the Republican and Democrat parties are committed to war, and only minor parties - Greens and Libertarians - and Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard are opposing US war crimes. Vote for them to salvage what little honor remains to America, if you have the chance.

—CGE