Let me take a hack at it for you (and
@Yardstick and
@robav8r ). I'm not particularly concerned if actual military operations occur, the damage is done. Listen to the language Carney recently used in his remarks. He's no longer speaking of possibilities but of present tense "ruptures."
On the most recent episode of The Dispatch Podcast, the host Steve Hayes (a traditional, serious, and principled conservative), tells of how last week he was interviewed by Danish Public Television. Paraphrasing, he recounts how the interviewer conceded that Europeans often disagreed or didn't understand American foreign policy, but never doubted we were the "good guys." The interviewer closed by asking Steve, "are you still the good guys." That's not easy question to answer right now; to suggest otherwise points to a fairly myopic view of the world
I didn't understand and hated calculus because I rarely showed up for class and didn't do the homework. Allies matter, partnerships matter, and this admin has memefied all of it because they hate what
they dont understand.
Some of you are tying yourselves in rhetorical knots to call a square a circle, or say up is down. But if we call it what it is, at best you're quietly aceeding to, and at worst actively cheering the demise of some pretty serious stuff.
