Lawmakers back military retaliation on Iran following drone attack, Trump calls drone being shot down ‘a mistake.’

Since 9/11, the U.S. has spent trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives trying to remake the Middle East in our image. It’s sad to say it out loud, but we have to: It hasn’t worked. Many of us thought it would, but it hasn’t.

By every measure, our foreign wars have ended in dismal failure for the United States — however noble their intentions, and some did have noble intentions. Donald Trump was one of the rare Republican politicians honest enough to admit this. He said it out loud three years ago, and promised not to repeat the same mistakes if elected president. And partly because he said that, he was elected president.