Charles C.W. Cooke
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 29 Jul
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Clearly, if you were half listening to Trump during the campaigns, both of them, you would have thought that he would not get involved in the Middle East proactively like this.
But
The big criticism that he has had, and that many of those who were attracted to Trump have had, was of full-scale ground wars, where we sent hundreds of thousands of troops to a country, we invaded, we put them on the ground there, and we left them there for a long time to keep the peace or advance other objectives.
In Trump's defense, he hasn't done that.
This is a very different way of engaging in the world.
We also saw it in Venezuela, where he got in with these very quick, very sophisticated, very successful attacks, and he achieved a goal.
So I think some of the cavilling I've heard that, oh, it's the same old, I think that isn't quite right.
Second, I keep seeing people quoting
the campaign from 2024 saying that if Kamala Harris is elected, your sons will be drafted and then say, aha.
Now, I think that was a hyperbole.
I don't think that would have happened either.
But no one's been drafted here.
We ought to be accurate.
No one's being drafted here.
No one's been drafted in America since the 1970s.
So the big question, to answer your question, I think Trump's going to have to answer, is how many dead Americans is the public going to put up with without a debate, without press conferences, without congressional involvement?
And we're already at, is it four?
That's a lot of people relative to the norm.
It's not a lot of people relative to World War Two.
But you don't normally hear about American soldiers being killed.
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