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The U.S. seems to have either no strategy or several competing ones. The principal one seems to be to bomb everything. This didn’t work in Vietnam, Afghanistan or in either the Gulf War or the Iraq War in the sense that matters most: winning the political game. Whatever happened to learning curves?
U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions from members of the media aboard Air Force One on Dec. 9, 2025. Former U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower once said, ‘Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.’ Who starts a war with no clear strategy, writes former Liberal MP John McKay.Official White House photograph courtesy of Molly Riley
SCARBOROUGH, ONT.—It is often said that the first casualty of war is truth. In the case of a war involving United States President Donald Trump, however, truth was a casualty long before the first shot was fired.
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