With the outcome of the 2020 election still undetermined, the Biden Transition team appears to be consolidating a "war cabinet", with long-time War Hawks and corporate lobbyists Michele Flournoy and Antony Blinken being touted for major roles. Both were influential in the Obama-Biden policy of U.S. military intervention in Lybia and Syria, and expanding U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. In contrast, Pres. Trump's Acting Defense Secretary, Christopher Miller, announced yesterday a draw down in the number of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, leading to charges of "premature withdrawal"—after two decades of military engagement!—from War Hawks in both parties.

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