Paging Democratic candidates: Don’t fall for the Trump isolationist spin. It’s all coming from Russia to serve Russian interests. America’s intervention in Syria has been very successful to date. For a relatively small investment of troops, Obama essentially squashed ISIS. Mattis continued that policy, but Trump is about to throw it all away. People like Elizabeth Warren have essentially agreed with Trump’s policy (just not his approach). This is an area where I’d like to see Chuck and Nancy lead the party. We need to control ISIS and we need to get American foreign policy engaged at stabilizing Syria, protecting the Kurds, and moving towards a political settlement that diminishes Assad’s power.
Time to dust of the “Mission: Accomplished” banner.
Whatever happened to “We’re fighting them over there so we won’t have to fight them here”?
Our strategy is this: We will fight them over there so we do not have to face them in the United States of America. (Applause.)
– George W. Bush, August 28, 2007
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070828-2.html
I’m afraid that all the research, scholarly application, and on-the-ground intelligence gathering that put agent’s lives in danger, mean nothing when put next to the towering ego of 45* .
Trump is a walking, talking operational definition of the terms “incompetent”, “treacherous”, and “corrupt”. I fear that if we survive his presidency, it will take decades of solid political leadership to recover our ability to promote and protect our national interests. That assumes that we effectively address the root causes of Trumpism.