Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan warns North Korea's nuclear escalation, deteriorating relations with Russia and China, and U.S. engagement in the Middle East are a growing challenge for the U.S. military — and President Donald Trump "may need those transgender troops."
In a piece for World Net Daily, Buchanan chides that, "Apparently, U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia are insufficient to satiate our War Party."
"Now it wants us to lead the Sunnis of the Middle East in taking down the Shiites, who are dominant in Iran, Iraq, Syria and South Lebanon, and are a majority in Bahrain and the oil-producing regions of Saudi Arabia."
Along with increasingly poor relations between the United States and Russia and China, and Kim Jong Un's goal to achieve "the ability to strike his enemy’s homeland with horrific impact, in order to deter that enemy," America's "military has its work cut out for it."
"President Trump may need those transgender troops," he wrote, referencing the president's tweet barring transgender troops in the military.
"Among the reasons Trump routed his Republican rivals in 2016 is that he seemed to share an American desire to look homeward," Buchanan argued. "Yet, today, our relations with China and Russia are as bad as they have been in decades, while there is open talk of war with Iran and North Korea.
"Was this what America voted for, or is this what America voted against?"
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