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    Commentary: Has providence anointed Donald Trump to end our endless wars?

    by Andrew Bacevich, Los Angeles Times Nov 04, 2019 4 minutes

    Let us stipulate that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud. Yet history is nothing if not a tale overflowing with irony. Despite his massive shortcomings, President Trump appears intent on recalibrating America's role in the world. Aligning U.S. policy with actually existing global conditions - and ending our endless wars, starting in Syria - may prove to be his providentially anointed function. Go figure.

    "Great nations do not fight endless wars." So the president announced in his 2019 State of the Union address. Implicit in this seemingly innocuous statement is a radical proposal to overturn the

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