Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion Invade Mexico? The GOP has learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan.

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September 29, 2023 at 7:46 a.m. EDT
Members of Mexico's National Guard patrol a highway in July 2021 after clashes between drug cartels. (Marco Ugarte/AP)
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Trying to understand MAGA foreign policy is a lot like banging your head against a wall: The pain only goes away when you stop.

The MAGA wing of the Republican Party increasingly wants to cut off aid to Ukraine (nearly half of House Republicans voted on Wednesday to do just that). They claim that we will be drawn into the Ukraine war ourselves, even though not a single U.S. soldier has been put in harm’s way. Yet many of the very same politicians appear eager to draw the United States into a bloody war with our southern neighbor — thus sending into battle the same armed forces that they routinely denigrate as a bunch of “woke” “losers.”