Lew offers a 50,000 ft. view of America’s disastrous wars: WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He looks at the lies told by President Wilson, Roosevelt, and Johnson about staying out of foreign wars in their election campaigns before they sent America headlong into them. (he omits mentioning George W. Bush who talked about a humble foreign policy with no nation-building the year before he launched TWO wars of that type).
Internationalist objectives like the formation of the League of Nations and later the United Nations were achieved but nothing was there for middle class Americans. The communist state in Russia was a result of the first WWI and conquest of almost half the globe by communists was a result of WWII, The disruption of the 3rd World resulting eventually in mass immigration into Europe and the U.S. and Marxist dictatorships around the globe was another result.
There was no gain and much death from Korea and Vietnam, as well as severe cultural dislocation in the later case. The Iraq and Afghanistan interventions were also total strategic failures but served to kill and maim many more Americans. America was saddled with $8T in debt from those and other Mideast interventions that have appeared to only serve the national interest of Israel, not our own nation.
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