This is a choice that the American president made, egged on by another corrupt leader in Benjamin Netanyahu, pretending that he can do whatever he wants, wherever he wants, with the most powerful military in history at his disposal. Donald Trump ran on opposing forever wars. It was central to his foreign policy pitch as a candidate for more than a decade. But what we've seen in the past two months alone is a president eager to use kinetic force, not as a last resort, but because it's available to him. (01:50–02:02)
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Asserts that opposing prolonged military engagements was a key part of Trump's foreign policy platform.
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