Bush and Cheney didn't exhaust diplomatic options with Afghanistan and Iraq

They both rushed to go to war with them, because they had ulterior economic and geopolitical motives. The same was true with President Polk and Mexico, and so on. The results? The US lost and the Taliban won in Afghanistan, Iraq is friendly to the US but impoverished and unstable, as is Mexico. American Presidents are not always the diplomatic statesmen we imagine, and Donald Trump was not an aberration, especially when compared with other conservative Presidents.

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