2017/02/04

Trump Has Already Blown It | Foreign Policy

Selected quotes from Trump Has Already Blown It | Foreign Policy:

"After telling us that he knows “much more” than the generals, his “secret plan” for dealing with the Islamic State turns out to be “ask the Defense Department to come up with one,” as if nobody at the Pentagon had given any thought to the matter."
"And all the while Trump and his surrogates continue to demonize anyone with the temerity to disagree with Fearless Leader or to question his infallibility, in a matter more reminiscent of Mussolini, Stalin, or the Kim family in North Korea than of Washington, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, or any of Trump’s other predecessors in the Oval office."
"It takes a danger of considerable magnitude to get realists and neoconservatives to agree on anything, but we agree on Trump."
"Which raises the obvious question: Why is he acting this way?"
"[a third possibility] Instead of recognizing America’s remarkable strengths and security and many unique virtues, the Breitbart worldview that has infested the White House believes it has to destroy our current democracy in order to save it."