I hope there's a long list of people who know better. I read that piece about how much Jared Kushner gets assigned for merely being a loyal lieutenant. The White House is running a skeleton crew absolutely everywhere. I love the Kurds. I just wonder if Donald Trump even knows what Kurds are.Does Trump have half an hour's worth of attention span for Wikipedia? Prolly not. But there's a long list of people under him that know shit Wikipedia doesn't.
It's one thing that we all "knew" that Trump would make foreign policy decisions based on gut-level reaction. It's another to see it happen. I'm chilled. Edit to add: I'm not sure what the right response is, by the way. Assad is using banned chemical weapons, something Obama ostensibly thought was worth drawing a red line in the sand over. Did we presumably give him the OK to make good on that promise? The fact that Obama didn't is a separate matter, but military strikes in retaliation of chemical warfare was/is within the political mainstream. It's just that with Trump, I'm not sure if this a reasoned move on the part of the military apparatus, or because Trump was shown some pictures of gassed Syrian civilians and he made the call himself. Fuck.