I have to admit to smirking a little watching Trump display the true-face and logical end of “the US-led rules-based international order” every time he pulls some wild idea capriciously out of his ass and then doubles and triples down on it.
The US—meaning an unaccountable Executive—said it, so dems the rules for everyone now. That’s how the system was supposed to work.
It had the veneer of respectability when the president was just rubber-stamping the foreign-policy blob consensus behind the rules. Now it’s the Crazy Orange Man calling for ethnically cleansing 2 million Gazans with a straight face. This is on par of lawlessness as, say, the Iraq War, starvation of Yemen, or the permanent embargo on Cuba, but now it’s clear as the light of day how morally bankrupt and permanently discredited this system is.
I was hoping that this would be enough to wake up Republicans in the Senate, but all they've given are mealy-mouthed mumbling about how "interesting" the proposal is, how we should take a "wait-and-see" approach, and we "don't have all of the details yet."
"It would be every bit as criminal as the invasion of Iraq, it would put another indelible stain on our national reputation, and it would make Americans less secure."
I have to admit to smirking a little watching Trump display the true-face and logical end of “the US-led rules-based international order” every time he pulls some wild idea capriciously out of his ass and then doubles and triples down on it.
The US—meaning an unaccountable Executive—said it, so dems the rules for everyone now. That’s how the system was supposed to work.
It had the veneer of respectability when the president was just rubber-stamping the foreign-policy blob consensus behind the rules. Now it’s the Crazy Orange Man calling for ethnically cleansing 2 million Gazans with a straight face. This is on par of lawlessness as, say, the Iraq War, starvation of Yemen, or the permanent embargo on Cuba, but now it’s clear as the light of day how morally bankrupt and permanently discredited this system is.
I was hoping that this would be enough to wake up Republicans in the Senate, but all they've given are mealy-mouthed mumbling about how "interesting" the proposal is, how we should take a "wait-and-see" approach, and we "don't have all of the details yet."
"It would be every bit as criminal as the invasion of Iraq, it would put another indelible stain on our national reputation, and it would make Americans less secure."
Is there any room left for another stain?
Of course it is criminal and insane. What does anyone propose to do about it?