The Trump administration is mulling a plan to send 120,000 troops to the Middle East in an apparent escalation of conflict with Iran, the New York Times reported.
And one retired general has a warning about the potential troop deployment — a change to military plans that was ordered by Trump national security adviser and noted neoconservative warmonger John Bolton, the Times reports.
“With the same neocons who led us into Iraq now in charge of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, we’re hurtling towards a war with Iran that may very likely result in many more lives lost, for no good reason,” said retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who served in the Iraq War and now sits on the board of VoteVets.
View the complete May 14 article by Emily Singer on the National Memo website here.