The perpetual war enters another calendar year
Start the new year off right-- with this absolutely precise report on Syria and the U.S. military state from center-right commentator Andrew Sullivan.After 17 years, we’ve gotten nowhere, like every single occupier before us. But for that reason, we have to stay. These commanders have been singing this tune year after year for 17 years of occupation, and secretaries of Defense have kept agreeing with them. Trump gave them one last surge of troops — violating his own campaign promise — and we got nowhere one more time. It is getting close to insane.