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In reply to the discussion: Still don't think he's a used-car salesman? [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I think the Iran agreement is a significant accomplishment. It will probably never be ratified, though. But the machinery of death rolls on in Afghanistan, the drone strikes continue at rates many multiples of anything Chimpy ever did and the War Machine is bigger than ever. And it is busily looking for its next playground. If a conventional candidate, indebted to the War Machine, is elected, more wars - plural - in the Middle East and Central Asia are guaran-damn-teed.
That area of policy has a dynamic that can only be changed at the margins by any conventional president, and Michael Glennon's "National Security and Double Government" proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt. The last president who tried to change it was Jack Kennedy. And the reward he got for his efforts is well known.