Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept has an article up, "Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised". He describes how Trump and his regime have ramped up the fifteen year war OF terror on planet Earth and how Trump told us he was going to do that all along.

"From the start of his presidency, Donald Trump’s “war on terror” has entailed the seemingly indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people in the name of killing terrorists. In other words, Trump has escalated the 16-year-old core premise of America’s foreign policy — that it has the right to bomb any country in the world where people it regards as terrorists are found — and in doing so, has fulfilled the warped campaign pledges he repeatedly expressed."

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/26/trumps-war-on-terror-has-quickly-bec...

Greenwald goes on to highlight some of the actions Trump has authorized and taken thus far in his imperial presidency, the bombings in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, the horrific killing of civilians, etc. His main point in the article is this is what Trump had said he would do and it is not inconsistent with being a non-interventionist, which Trump indicated he would be as president when he was lying campaigning last year.

"Each time Trump drops another bomb, various pundits and other assorted Trump opponents smugly posit that his doing so is inconsistent with his touted non-interventionism. This is just ignorance of what these terms mean.

Trump’s campaign pledges regarding Syria, and now his actions there, illustrate this point very clearly. Trump never advocated a cessation of military force in Syria. As the above video demonstrates, he advocated the opposite: an escalation of military force in Syria and Iraq in the name of fighting ISIS and al Qaeda. Indeed, Trump’s desire to cooperate with Russia in Syria was based on a desire to maximize the potency of bombing there (just as was true of Obama’s attempt to forge a bombing partnership with Putin in Syria).

Nothing Trump has thus far done is remotely inconsistent with the non-interventionism he embraced during the campaign, unless one confuses “non-interventionism” with “opposition to the use of military force.”

But what Trump’s actions are not is a departure from what he said he would do, nor are they inconsistent with the predictions of those who described his foreign policy approach as non-interventionist. To the contrary, the dark savagery guiding U.S. military conduct in that region is precisely what Trump expressly promised his supporters he would usher in."

While I agree Trump is doing what he said he would do, I warned many times that Trump was all in for the fake war OF terror, I don't think it amounts to non-interventionism.

"Interventionism: governmental interference in economic affairs at home or in political affairs of another country;
the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs."

To believe what Trump and his warmonger regime are doing in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and beyond is non-interventionist and solely about trying to defeat ISIS and Al Qaeda is to believe the war OF terror is really about defeating terrorists that attacked the U.S. on 9/11. That would be typical Greenwald who dances around the issue of 9/11 and the real reasons for the war OF terror.

Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen were not attacked by the U.S. and company to fight the war on terror against ISIS and Al Qaeda, they were attacked for imperialist geopolitical goals of the U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia and others. The war OF terror, as precipitated by the false flag event on 9/11, was always intended as an excuse (the "New Pearl Harbor"), the required enemy, to wage interminable war in the middle east and beyond, to take down governments, destroy economies and countries, i.e., an excuse to "intervene" in the affairs of other countries. If that's not interventionism, I don't know what is. I'm not sure what the main point Greenwald is really trying to make here. He describes those pointing out Trump's intervention in other countries as people who "smugly posit that his doing so is inconsistent with his touted non-interventionism. This is just ignorance of what these terms mean."

Well, call me ignorant Glenn. I never thought Trump was touting non-interventionism anyway. I thought he sounded like an American warmonger president from the get go. As you state, he was all over the fake war OF terror and for building the biggest military ever. To me, that was the tell. The war OF terror is the ultimate interventionist tool, it gives our government carte blanche to attack any country in the world under the guise of the war OF terror. The war on terror is a fraud. All war is a lie including the war on terror.

I think he's a non-interventionist only if one thinks the war OF terror is real. You'd have to believe that Trump and his regime really are trying to fight ISIS and Al Qaeda instead of using them as proxy armies for "interventionist" regime changes and country balkanization agendas and as an excuse to greatly increase the military budget and feed the military industrial complex. Does Greenwald really think that? I don't.