President Trump gave a big Christmas present to his libertarian-minded subjects last week when he announced plans to withdraw American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. We discuss this unexpected move and the broader “war on terror."

Links:

• The Establishment Will Never Say No To a War
• Howard Dean on Twitter
• The cost of the war in lives, and in dollars
• Many Afghans Shrug at 'This Event Foreigners Call 9/11'
• Among many Afghans, 9/11 remains unfamiliar or poorly understood
• US Defense Spending Compared to Other Countries
• The Infographics Show does “USA vs. the World"
• Robert Lorenzo Hester, one of hundreds of examples of “terrorists” entrapped by American agencies