Trump’s New Afghanistan Strategy: Keep the Minerals!

Aug 1, 2017 | Eric Levitz
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Donald Trump spent most of his campaign sounding like the adult son of George Wallace and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. But every once in a while, he’d sound like Noam Chomsky. “We have done a tremendous disservice not only to the Middle East — we’ve done a tremendous disservice to humanity,” Trump said at a Republican primary debate. “The people that have been killed, the people that have been wiped away — and for what?” These and other pronouncements led some (foolish bloggers) to wonder if Trump might revive the American right’s long-dormant tradition of isolationism — and, thus, keep the U.S. out of another misbegotten war.