Quote: Looking at what Trump brought to the table
Trump huh ?
He certainly isn't blameless; But there were
four Presidents, two political parties, God only knows how many General Officers, and enough high level "intellegence" experts and assorted other top bureaucrats to populate a small city, responsible for this clusterf*ck, which began 20 years ago, not a couple of weeks or months ago.
My generation's war was Vietnam. I'll leave the question of whether we should have fought it at all for another time. But we did. And we f*cked that one up too.
Learn from experience? Not so much it seems.
Why? My fingers would fall off if I tried to type a list of all the reasons.
But I'll give you the big one.
There is no personal accountability, or personal consequences, for even the most extreme screw ups at the top level of our government.
It's taken over 200 years for our system to evolve to that point but here we are. Maybe someone a lot smarter than me can see a way to get back to something that works. I can't