Glenn Greenwald

But they still bothered to do that.

And so there was a big majority at the start.

And ultimately, the failure of that war is what ruined Bush's legacy.

That's clearly how he'll be remembered.

In this case, I've never seen a war in my lifetime that didn't produce some sort of rally around the flag effect where people said, okay, my country's going to war.

I support this war.

I understand why we're fighting it.

There was no attempt to convince America of that.

And so this war is quickly...

the most unpopular war that I've seen in my lifetime.

And that means Trump has two choices and only two choices.

Number one is he can continue to get further and further sucked in, which is how these wars become the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, exactly this way.

Nobody starts off saying, oh, I want to fight a 20 year war.

Nobody starts off with that.

Everybody starts, oh, just another month, just another month.

And, you know, suddenly 12 special forces soldiers are killed and now you can't get out.

You have to go and avenge them.

And then you escalate and they escalate and then it becomes that.

Or he just arbitrarily and prematurely ends it, pretending that we won some great victory, even though we won nothing.

And everybody sees that.