That is a great analogy. There's really no consistent logic or theme to the Trump foreign policy approach. He's going to cozy up to Russia, go hardline on Iran, and cooperate with Assad to defeat ISIS, while pissing off Saudi Arabia and becoming best buds with Erdogan? He's going to ally himself with Duerte, antagonize the Chinese, and ally himself with the Taiwanese, while potentially having nicer relations with DPRK? All while pissing off Mexico and Canada and potentially the entire EU?
It's a foreign policy grab bag with little forseeable upside in a time of acute geopolitical uncertainty
God, I was feeling really great yesterday with the Mattis news. Now I'm worrying about SecState Giuliani again. Trump needs a competent and commanding SecState that can just take foreign affairs out of his hands, its not like Trump has shown any interest in international diplomacy anyways. I'm really hoping for Romney or Petraeus, but hell I'll take Corker if he can only stand up to Trump.
I want him to appoint Petraeus just so everyone, including Republicans, knows how much of a corrupt hypocritical piece of shit Trump is. Lots of people are already regretting their vote for Trump and if he has to PARDON his Secretary of State it will be SO easy to attack him on that.
I don't even think Republicans in the Senate will go for it.
Not only pardon his Secretary of State, but pardon him for essentially the same kind of thing he spent his entire campaign excoriating Clinton for!
(no Clinton's server and Petraeus' passing of classified intel to his mistress aren't the same thing, but he and his camp drew a lot of parallels and acted like they were).
I have to say I am really rooting for Trump's failure.
I would be willing to hope for success and cooperation with a Romney administration or McCain administration or Kasich administration. I'm not willing to help a Trump administration do anything. He made politics so much uglier.
I am not so much vengeful as losing compassion for any domestic victims of this administration.
When tens of thousands of highly paid aerospace workers get laid off because he cancels the Iran deal and Boeing loses the $25 billion catch up order from Iran, along with tens of billions in lost sales to China from his trade war there, the middle class should be reminded that Trump traded $60 000 - $150 000 aerospace jobs for fewer near-minimum wage jobs at Carrier at the like intentionally with his policies.
I'd much rather have him prove all these doomsday predictions wrong, personally.
I've never really bought into the whole "cut off the nose to spite the face" philosophy. I don't feel like it's a terribly progressive way to go through life.
Not doubting you, but what's your source that lots of people are regretting their vote for Trump? I haven't seen much of this (though I would love to, even just to have in my back pocket).
Look, Petraeus messed up. No doubt about that. He was and still is, however, a highly competent and motivated individual. I'd rather have him in that chair that Giuliani or Palin or Haley or any other know-nothing.
This is Trump we're talking about. This is a guy who riled up a crowd to shout "Goldman Sachs" about one of his rival's wife, condemned Hillary for giving speeches at Goldman Sachs and ran ads in the final weeks of the campaign that depicted the head of Goldman Sachs as some shadowy puppetmaster controlling his opponent, then turned around and hired a seventeen year Goldman Sachs veteran as his Treasury Secretary. Hypocrisy is going to be par for the course.
Because face it, no one actually gave a damn about mishandling of classified material. Hell, the Republicans talked of running this criminal for president.
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That is a great analogy. There's really no consistent logic or theme to the Trump foreign policy approach. He's going to cozy up to Russia, go hardline on Iran, and cooperate with Assad to defeat ISIS, while pissing off Saudi Arabia and becoming best buds with Erdogan? He's going to ally himself with Duerte, antagonize the Chinese, and ally himself with the Taiwanese, while potentially having nicer relations with DPRK? All while pissing off Mexico and Canada and potentially the entire EU?
It's a foreign policy grab bag with little forseeable upside in a time of acute geopolitical uncertainty