Well, to be fair, anything we do under a GOP administration can only make things worse.Reflecting on the rise of international trade and finance, former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson once stated that the “effects of war can no longer be confined to the areas of battle” . . . . Today’s U.S. policymakers seem to have forgotten Wilson’s admonishment. When Trump embarked on this war, he exposed his Gulf partners to unprecedented attacks, and in turn, he disturbed the flows that are the lifeblood of the global economy.This is, in my opinion, profoundly stupid. Any time someone begins by quoting Woodrow Wilson, you know he is on the wrong track. But what is mostly going on here is the unshakable conviction, in polite society, that anything America does on the world stage–other than sending money to other countries, of course–can only do harm, never good. We should never interfere with the world’s evils, no matter how profound they may be, as in the case of Iran’s demonic theocracy. Because no matter what we do, it can only make things worse.
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Yah, hey! Roosevelt did SUCH a good job handing Europe to the tender mercies of Stalin.....
Tex, it's your last line that gives it away. When the GOP does it, they won't be in charge, so it can't possibly be any good for anyone. What results does not matter. The only thing they are measuring is whether they are in charge. It takes a long discussion with them to come up with sufficient evidence that this is what they are really saying, stripped to its bare essentials. That is frustrating, because you knew the answer at the outset and were just collecting pelts to get to the end.
Anytime there’s a Republican President, we’re in for four years of bad news. The economy is disastrous, foreign policy is terrible and unwise, and none of the noble foreign countries will ever trust us again.
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