Bill Kristol: “Trump has taken us to war. The damage of his unilateral and irresponsible decision to do so is mounting, in terms of death and destruction in the Middle East, American casualties, and economic damage globally and at home. And it doesn’t look as if there’ll even be regime change in Iran. Trump’s war is a mistake heading towards disaster.”
“And Trump’s enjoying it all. For him, it’s exciting! It’s fun! It’s an excursion!”
“Consider George W. Bush and Iraq. Bush didn’t revel in the Iraq war and didn’t deny it was a war. And of course he had congressional approval for it. But he paid a great political price when it didn’t go well, and that price was exacerbated by his seeming to claim, a few weeks in, that it was a ‘mission accomplished.'”
“Couldn’t Trump’s ‘little excursion’ into Iran be his ‘mission accomplished’? Couldn’t the expression be wrapped around Trump’s neck by his opponents as a term of well-deserved ridicule and opprobrium?”
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