One of the things I like about you is your serious anti-war convictions. But I think those convictions deserve a better focus for your energies than this hypothesis. As I said, neoliberals like Clinton are a factor in the current state of affairs. But conservatives have also loved to use the military, and one of my regrets about Trump is that he has not turned his "America First" policy, which at one point was isolationist (for better and worse), into a block against unneeded interventions. The news today was they are weighing another "surge" in Afghanistan with more troops to be sent.

I see alt-right sites cheering the MOAB explosion and calling for a strike against North Korea. These are not goals shared by the left.