Full transcript of remarks in Saudi Arabia here.
Gee, sounds just like Bush (and ISIS) and conservative talk radio is thrilled.
Typically, this rhetoric is used to justify treating the evil as less than human, which is what ISIS does, or sending American troops abroad in search of monsters to destroy. But we're 16 years into Afghanistan now, with no end in sight, and the monsters just keep reproducing themselves.
This is not to suggest moral equivalence, but only that the West continues to delegitimize the "Islamic" in Islamic State in order to keep the military-industrial complex busy.
The goal of war, rather, is supposed to be to end the enemy's ability to wage it. We haven't been serious about that, and I don't think Trump will be either.
Either end it, or quit it, but carrying on like this is bankrupting the country.
Enough.
