Decline Of The American War Hawk - David Brooks And Others Just Don't Get It

 "Americans who want the U.S. less engaged in world affairs are saying no more than what Brooks, for reasons I can't fathom, finds 'amazing': that there are limits to the changes that American politicians and soldiers can bring about, and that those limits ought to be obvious to anyone looking at Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Ukraine. This point is being made with increasing insistence by the American public because they perceive, correctly, that there is a cadre of Washington, D.C. insiders -- bureaucrats, military contractors, think tank fellows, editors like Bill Kristol, writers like Max Boot -- so oblivious to America's limits that they can't even see the last military intervention that they successfully advocated as a mistake, even though, in that case, the catastrophic results have already played out." Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic.