OPINION: The question D.C. dare not answer: Why are we in Niger? | Will Bunch
"I don't know how he got killed, where he got killed, or anything," Johnson, who is six months pregnant with her late husband's child, said in a recent interview with
What's appalling is that the powerful people who should be able to answer these simple questions seem completely clueless -- and not just about what happened in the Nigerien town of Tongo Tongo on that fateful day. Sen.
There's one question no one has adequately answered -- the most important one of all.
Why are we in
More broadly, what is the explanation and the strategy behind the ever-expanding
It's a serious, life-or-death question that calls for thoughtful answers from serious people -- exactly what we've been lacking in the downward spiral of American discourse spinning out of control since the unfortunate events of 11/8/16. Instead, the nation has been insulted with the ugliest episode yet of the TV reality show emanating from
That conversation should start with this: Under what authority are some 6,000
That resolution, of course, really addressed only the original
That was 16 years ago this autumn. Now,
Obama did publicly announce in 2013 that he was sending 100 U.S. troops to
In failing to address a militaristic
And yet with all these operations all over the globe for so many years -- longer than a typical high school sophomore has been alive -- do we feel any safer? Has resentment over America's drone strikes from
If and when the despicable widow-bashing ever stops and after the Pentagon gets its story straight about what happened in Tongo Tongo, Trump -- or maybe Defense Secretary
Then that strategy needs to be written down in a new authorization for use of military force that needs to be sent to
Though I've tried to ignore most of the back-and-forth, I was struck by Trump's apparent comment in his now infamous phone call with
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