Anybody who KNOWS Donald Trump’s history KNOWS that he has history of mess-ups and mistakes…
His acquiescence to Turkey’s leader’s wishes goes on the list…
And it has cost lives this time….
Pence said that Erdogan and Trump spoke by phone on Monday and that the president “communicated to him very clearly that the United States of America wants Turkey to stop the invasion, to implement an immediate cease-fire and to begin to negotiate with Kurdish forces in Syria to bring an end to the violence.”…
Note…
Trump goes by the ‘seat of his pants ‘….
He does NOT listen to military or foreign affairs ‘experts’…
image..Slate
You rarely get mulligans in such sensitive national-security or diplomatic issues. Once the milk has been spilt, there is no way to unspill it.
Or, as Colin Powell and Richard Armitage futilely tried to tell George W. Bush, the Pottery Barn Rule applies: if you broke something, you own it.
What an incredible disaster due entirely to Trump