Six days later, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the Senate, introduced a similar resolution. “If not arrested,” he said, “withdrawing from Syria will invite more of the chaos that breeds terrorism and create a vacuum our adversaries will certainly fill.”[1]Whoa. "Chaos," "terrorism," "vacuums," to be filled by "adversaries." All in one sentence, pilgrims. Adversaries lurk everywhere, vacuums threaten if Americans mind our own business, and Americans must forestall or fill them to foil "terror."
That is state-of-the-art American foreign policy. Moronic intervention everywhere to chase down will-o'-the-wisps. "It's all about us" should be inscribed over the entrance to the U.S. State Department. Or maybe the thought, "Reforming the world, R2P, presidential whim, and "protecting oil fields" are not listed in the U.N. Charter."
Contemporary America is unrecognizable. We long ago left "functioning nation" behind in our rear-view mirror.
Notes
[1] "Did Trump Outsmart Putin With Syria Retreat?" By Zev Chafets, ZeroHedge, 10/25/19.
2 comments:
Trump has shut out the alphabet agencies in favor of MI and SOG operations. He continues to outmaneuver and stay several steps ahead of the Democrats and the Nevertrumpers.
https://theeveningchronicle.blogspot.com/2019/10/its-all-pure-coincidence-im-sure.html
I wish I could see any kind of foresight or insight on the part of Trump. Alas, he seems to me to lurch from one tweet to another and is incapable of articulating anything like a coherent strategic vision. The border issue has been a place where patriot dreams go to die under Trump. He deliberately won't involve Art. IV, Sect. 4 to identify the immigrant influx as an invasion. I think he;s been neutralized.
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