Source: Reason
by Matthew Petti
“Tuesday night’s presidential debate was a reprieve from the hawk-off that the 2024 campaign has become. Rather than trying to out-hawk each other, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump defended peace on the merits. Harris even bragged about ending an ‘endless war,’ after the Democratic Party took that phrase out of this year’s notoriously hawkish platform. But when it came to ending current wars, neither candidate could articulate how they would do it. Trump gave a peace plan for Ukraine that amounted to magical handwaving, and Harris delivered a word salad of an answer about a ceasefire in Gaza. Although she praised the end of the Afghan war, Harris also attacked Trump for negotiating the very truce that allowed U.S. forces to leave, accusing him of appeasing terrorists. The candidates’ hawkish turn over the past few months had put them out of step with the American public.” (09/11/24)
https://reason.com/2024/09/11/harris-and-trump-say-they-want-peace-but-neither-has-a-plan/