Can the US military stabilize Palestine after the war?
Washington’s decision to put US 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 US-led war in the Middle East. In the name of humanitarianism The US 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…
