Trump Can Bring Peace to a War

U.S. Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams tanks and an AAV-P7/A1 assault amphibious vehicle attached to Fox Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, patrol the beach during a training mechanized assault for exercise Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2018 in Ustka, Poland, June 12, 2018. (Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Dengrier M. Baez/Released)

George D. O’Neill, Jr., founder of The Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy explains at The American Conservative, how President Donald Trump can bring peace in a world where Americans “are overwhelmingly tired of the wars they cannot explain or even locate on a globe.” He writes (abridged):

The past year and a half of Russophobia have been driven by the “bitter clingers” of Hillary’s failed national political ambitions, the military-industrial complex, corporate interests, corporate media, the Washington/New York/Hollywood commentariat, and foreign lobbyists. Too many of them profit from an endless state of war—throughout the world and, in particular, with Russia.

Washington and its clients are terrified that the war gravy train will be slowed or stopped. Our NATO clients are afraid of carrying their own national defense burdens. Washington neocons are perfectly willing to continue to waste the lives of our devoted military to protect both their funding and a world order that the West’s victory in the Cold War has rendered moot.

Again, the American people share no such delusions and are overwhelmingly tired of the wars they cannot explain or even locate on a globe. These wars have damaged and destroyed American families. War proponents’ repeated incantations about “supporting the troops” instead of keeping them home to protect their families and our country has worn thin.

The July 16 Trump-Putin summit is an opportunity for the president to act boldly in the face of near-total establishment opposition and work to bring peace to a war-weary world.