CNN’s Zakaria: ‘The U.S. Is Stumbling Its Way into Another Decade of War in the Greater Middle East’

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ZAKARIA: "It seems likely to persist in this conflict even though it has resulted in a a humanitarian catastrophe. A child in Yemen is dying from preventable causes every ten minutes according to UNICEF and the poorest country in the Arab world turned into a wasteland in which terror groups will compete for decades to come. In almost every situation American forces are involved in, the solutions are more political than military. Everything military has been tried. This has become especially true in places like Syria and Afghanistan when many regional powers have major interests. Military force without a strategy and a deeply engaged political and diplomatic process is destined to fail. Perhaps even to produce a series of unintended consequences. Think about the last decade and a half. During the campaign, Donald Trump seemed to be genuinely reflective about America’s role in the Middle East... Yes. After 16 years of continuous warfare, hundreds of thousands dead, trillions of dollars spent and greater regional instability, someone in Washington needs to ask before the next bombing, before the next deployment, what is going on?"