21st December 2018, 10:37 PM
Yeah, thanks Fox News, now we have a government shutdown over the wall. Just great...
In even worse news though, Trump's support for Putin is now too much for Mattis to handle, and he's quitting, meaning an anti-democratic loon now is running US foreign policy. The damage is already bad -- withdrawing from Syria now, with ISIS not actually defeated, is a big mistake; abandoning the Syrian Kurds is maybe an even bigger one and makes it even more likely that they will reconcile with Assad; and a big withdrawl in Afghanistan is also probably a bad move. I mean, Afghanistan is a horrible mess, and we are definitely not winning that war... but when it's the country that gave us 9/11, and when the Taliban, if allowed to return to power, would be probably the most regressive and violently anti-female regime in the world yet again, we can't afford to leave either. It's a horrible mess we're stuck in there but just abandoning them and leaving is probably an even worse move than staying is, sadly.
And the idea that this may leave to Trump trying to withdraw from NATO, bomb North Korea and maybe set off a horrendous war there, etc? There are a lot of scary possibilities now that the few people restraining him on foreign policy are now gone. Congress can do some things to stop him or slow him down, but will they?
In even worse news though, Trump's support for Putin is now too much for Mattis to handle, and he's quitting, meaning an anti-democratic loon now is running US foreign policy. The damage is already bad -- withdrawing from Syria now, with ISIS not actually defeated, is a big mistake; abandoning the Syrian Kurds is maybe an even bigger one and makes it even more likely that they will reconcile with Assad; and a big withdrawl in Afghanistan is also probably a bad move. I mean, Afghanistan is a horrible mess, and we are definitely not winning that war... but when it's the country that gave us 9/11, and when the Taliban, if allowed to return to power, would be probably the most regressive and violently anti-female regime in the world yet again, we can't afford to leave either. It's a horrible mess we're stuck in there but just abandoning them and leaving is probably an even worse move than staying is, sadly.
And the idea that this may leave to Trump trying to withdraw from NATO, bomb North Korea and maybe set off a horrendous war there, etc? There are a lot of scary possibilities now that the few people restraining him on foreign policy are now gone. Congress can do some things to stop him or slow him down, but will they?