“The military establishment … seem[s] to be less interested in thinking about how to win wars and really good about thinking about how to spend money prolonging conflicts. And this is a conflict that looks like it will be quite prolonged,” said Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway during an interview on Fox News. “But, unlike some of the recent conflicts we’ve been in like Afghanistan, this one really does threaten to spread into global conflict.”



