I don't consider myself qualified to argue the war on the merits, because I honestly don't know what's gone on behind closed doors, or even what the point of it really is. But I will ask you this.
If Trump had run on starting a war with Iran, would he have won the election?
I guess we'll never know. But I really, really doubt it. Instead, he claimed to be against exactly this kind of war. It's hard to look at this as anything but an overt betrayal of the people who elected him. At least when Bush started the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, there was a 9/11 standing between that and his campaign. You could understand why his position changed. (And I'm hardly defending Bush for this, the result was disastrous anyway)
There's nothing so visible here. He never made a case for this crap to the voters.
This had better turn out really, unbelievably, unexpectedly well or I don't see how this is defensible, except maybe in a really cynical realpolitik way, but even that will take a long time to shake out.
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I don't consider myself qualified to argue the war on the merits, because I honestly don't know what's gone on behind closed doors, or even what the point of it really is. But I will ask you this.
If Trump had run on starting a war with Iran, would he have won the election?
I guess we'll never know. But I really, really doubt it. Instead, he claimed to be against exactly this kind of war. It's hard to look at this as anything but an overt betrayal of the people who elected him. At least when Bush started the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, there was a 9/11 standing between that and his campaign. You could understand why his position changed. (And I'm hardly defending Bush for this, the result was disastrous anyway)
There's nothing so visible here. He never made a case for this crap to the voters.
This had better turn out really, unbelievably, unexpectedly well or I don't see how this is defensible, except maybe in a really cynical realpolitik way, but even that will take a long time to shake out.
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