Interesting article. But it stops right where it could become interesting. It laments the fact that, for Americans, there is no distinction between those confli

Interesting article. But it stops right where it could become interesting. It laments the fact that, for Americans, there is no distinction between those conflicts; it's just "Over There", and "the distinctions between the conflicts, the countries and their people, are lost." But it's indeed a correct assessment. It's definitely "Over There", and Americans are not engaged simply because those wars (or battles) don't actually concern them at all. Those wars are not just deeply unpopular in the rest of the West; they're also unpopular in America. Obama wanted to bring the troops home; he couldn't. Trump said he wanted to do the same things (arguably he says a lot of things), and so far he has not done so. Cui bono?