Will Americans ever escape this 'imperialist realism'?

Last week, after nearly two decades of fighting, the U.S. finally pulled the plug on its seemingly endless war in Iraq.Like our exit from Afghanistan just a few years ago, the end of fighting in Iraq was met with an eerie quiet. It doesn’t take much to figure out why so little attention is paid to the end of these wars: they mark yet another loss for America and the people in Washington who insist our military power can solve every problem, everywhere. Both conflicts are examples of American hubris — strategically incoherent wars fought with American lives at the expense of too many Iraqis and