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Fortune
Scott S. Greenberger

America's dumbest war (no, not this one)

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A Republican president, one who muses about adding Canada to the United States, erects trade barriers to punish America’s rivals and ignite domestic manufacturing. Instead, he does grievous harm to the U.S. economy.

Frustrated, the United States launches a war of choice. Despite promises of a quick and decisive military triumph, the conflict drags on. The president’s rosy predictions of imminent victory are so divorced from reality critics fear he has lost his mind.

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