Washington’s decision to put U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza to “monitor” a ceasefire is the oldest con in the American foreign policy playbook: the promise of a “limited” mission that always expands into a quagmire.
Vietnam began as an advisory role, Iraq as liberation, and Afghanistan as counterterrorism. Each became a decades-long disaster.
Now, with Trump threatening to “eliminate” Hamas if it resists total disarmament, the so-called peace mission is already mutating into what it truly is — the opening act of another U.S.-led war in the Middle East.
### In the Name of Humanitarianism
The U.S. owns the peace business, treating peace as one of its most profitable exports, at least rhetorically. This rhetoric of humanitarian intervention — once a Cold War instrument of regime change and later the moral cloak for invasions from Iraq to Libya — remains the backbone of Washington’s foreign policy.
The business model is simple: wage war to make peace, destroy to “stabilize.” This model is…
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