Donald Trump's tears are good, but the US needs more: Distinctly Catholic: The test of political leadership is not the capacity to feel, but the capacity to decide what to do about the horror.
MSW:No one ever denied that Donald Trump was a man of deep feelings. The problem is that so are most fascists and that he is flying by the seat of his pants. He has no idea about how policy is developed, especially in national security and why consistent policy is a good thing, especially for for him since he is the ultimate judge, at least until the next election, of what that policy will be. Flying by the seat of his pants leads to chaos and that is never good is a government this large.
A no-fly zone is not enough. We need a larger peace conference that puts Abdullah of Jordan back in Damascus reigning over a state from the Lebanon to Iraq to the part of Israel ceded as a Palestinian and Arab Israeli state. We should not wait for rebels to topple Assad or ISIL. We need to do those things ourselves. Does Trump have the ability or inclination to do that? Of course not. This is, sadly, a long term project.
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