Afrasianet - Daniel Larrison - The American website "Antiwar" published an article in which he criticized the career of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, considering that he was one of the most prominent advocates of military interventions, wars, and US sanctions during the past decades, and that his political legacy was linked to support for hardline foreign policies and calls for military escalation in a number of files around the world, especially Iran.
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Senator Lindsey Graham, the chief warmonger from South Carolina, has died, leaving behind a legacy of death, destruction, and immense human suffering: Graham cheered every foreign war and every sanctions regime for at least the past three decades, and was one of the most vocal advocates for a criminal attack on Iran, eventually getting what he hoped for before he left. In a city teeming with bloodthirsty warmongers, Graham has emerged as one of the worst of them all.
When Graham spoke about the potential costs of waging a war against North Korea in 2017, Graham famously underestimated the potential human toll, arguing that it would happen "there." This callous indifference to the human costs of war did not cause him any political trouble in Washington, on the contrary, his enthusiasm for bloodshed This made him a prominent figure and a familiar face in the capital.
Despite his long career of supporting U.S. interventions in unnecessary and illegal conflicts, Graham's position in Congress was never threatened. His performance in representing South Carolina's population had been very poor over the past two decades, but once in power, no one was able to remove him.
In Washington, he had a well-deserved reputation as a sober foreign policy figure. Graham was able to operate in Washington thanks to a vile pro-war culture She embraced his hard-line and bloodthirsty tendencies.
Initially, Graham was a vocal critic of Trump, fearing that his rise would threaten the spontaneous policy of military intervention that Graham valued and supported. But once Trump was elected, Graham soon realized that the president's positions were much closer to his own than he had thought.
By the end of his first term, Graham had cemented his alliance with Trump just as he had previously done with McCain. He may have moved on to a new leader, but his bad views on foreign policy have never changed.
