On October 24, 2020, Honduras the 50th country to ratify the treaty, which will now go into effect on January 22, 2021.
In your estimation, then, what is the likelihood that Biden does any or all of these things when he takes office come January 2021?
Sorensen: Sure, he could do all of those. Unfortunately, given the makeup of his Pentagon transition team, as we talked about,
I don t see him doing any of those. Now, I hope to be proven wrong.
But there are literally career militants and not just career militants, but career war profiteers, people who ride the revolving door in and around the military-industrial-congressional complex their whole adult lives
In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, armed men stand on the steps at the State Capitol after a rally in support of President Donald Trump in Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Pro-Trump extremists breached the Capitol, attacked police and called for the Vice President s execution. Now, national security experts see an even bigger danger. Are we facing domestic insurgency? And if we are, how can we heal as a nation?
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Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (2002-2005). Served 31 years in the U.S. Army. Senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network.
This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch.
If you have a moment, how about joining two retired officers, Bill Astore and me, Danny Sjursen, as we think about this country s catastrophic forever wars that, regardless of their deadly costs and lack of progress, never seem quite to end?
Recently, in a podcast chat about our very different but somehow twin journeys through those wars, he and I got to thinking about what might have happened if our paths had crossed so much earlier. Both of us, after all, have been writing for
TomDispatch for years. As Bill once said to me, thinking about his post-military writing career, You know, Danny, in my small way I was trying and failing to stop the wars you were heading into.