Starvin Larry

SLL has argued repeatedly that the best course for the US in the Middle East and northern Africa would be to get out and stay out. As SLL has acknowledged, such a policy does not guarantee that the US will not be a victim of future attacks by Islamist extremists. However, current policies, or an escalation of US involvement in the region, does guarantee such attacks.

Proponents of involvement, and especially of escalation, while quick to condemn proposals to withdraw by highlighting real risks, destroy their own credibility by neither acknowledging the consequences of past intervention or, more importantly, honestly and publicly reckoning the costs of future interventions. If they did, much of the current support for Hillary Clinton’s and the GOP candidates’ cheerleading for escalating involvement would evaporate.

“An Invitation to Collective Suicide” is  just such a reckoning. If the goal is to “subdue” Islamist violence and “make…