Tuesday, September 08, 2026

Donald The Dove

Sure it's the right result for catastrophically wrong reasons, but one cheer for Donald, the peace president, if he manages to shrink our global military presence.

In offices across the military and in the intelligence community, there have been recent quiet discussions about cutting the number of people and facilities typically stationed in the Middle East if the Trump administration succeeds in ending the Iran conflict, six sources say. 

If those cuts happen, it would mark another shift in how the US national security apparatus treats a region that successive presidents have sought to leave behind.

How hard have those successive presidents really tried to leave it behind...