Via history.com
In late March, Germany sunk four more U.S. merchant ships, and on April 2 President Wilson appeared before Congress and called for a declaration of war against Germany. Four days later, his request was granted.
In the aftermath of the first Syrian airstrike, I find myself more afraid of Senator McCain, Senator Rubio and the mainstream media than Trump.
The war hawks seem hungry to enable Trump. They are giving zero consideration to the fact that Trump is a madman, uniquely unfit to be a wartime commander in chief, or to the fact that, while cosmetic actions in Syria will prove useless, more serious actions could lead to a new Iraq, a new Vietnam, a new Cuban Missile Crisis, or worse.
This is how it begins. This is always how it begins. Nobody knows how big an earthquake is going to be -- the fault lines are below the surface.
At the same time, nobody knows how big a war conflict is going to be -- once again the fault lines are below the surface. What matters is the potential magnitude of the fault lines. And with Syria you have Russia, Iran and countless other entanglements mixed in.
This is how it happens. Stupid war hawks with short-sighted objectives beat the drums for moving ahead in fog, not knowing what entanglements lie in wait, and then the escalations simply feed on themselves. And now we have the worst leadership possible at the helm.
I fear new history may be in the making. The Guns of August, centennial edition.
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