One Good Thing: Trump first president since Carter not to drag America into foreign wars

There is one really good thing Donald Trump has done as president. He has not used America’s vast military power to kill and maim large numbers of people in countries that pose no threat to the US.

Jimmy Carter is the only other president since 1950 who didn’t go to war. The rest have all embraced a bi-partisan doctrine of American “exceptionalism” that lets them unleash horrendous destruction.

The Congressional Research Service calculates that the US has used military force overseas 240 times since 1950. While most weren’t major wars, no other country has used military power on remotely this scale.

Moreover, between 37 million and 59 million people have fled their homes in the eight most violent wars the US military has…