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Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Michael Swanson

Today the United States is engaged in seemingly winless wars without end in Iraq and Afghanistan and has been engaging in interventions in places such as Libya, which seem to result in nothing but chaos. Libya has descended into civil war and the rise of ISIS is a fallout of the Iraq war. U.S. foreign policy has created a mess, but there seems to be very little debate over the wisdom of engaging in further interventions and wars in the world when it comes to the leaders of the two main political parties or on the television news and commentary channels, where the need for more interventions seems to be taken for granted. It is as if nothing has been learned from the past thirteen years. But this pattern of intervention goes back for decades and much can be learned from studying the past...

https://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/militarism-our-civic-religion/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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https://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
https://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
https://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
https://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
https://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war
https://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+war
https://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
https://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Islamic+State
https://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Swanson