Trump’s surprise leaves us in uncharted waters

Whitestone: Kudos to Sen. Chris Murphy, who rightly criticized President Trump, saying, “This is the most incompetent, incoherent war America has fought in the last 100 years. And that’s saying a lot. This administration has no idea what they are doing. There is no viable war plan. They change their goals and their aims every single day. I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders. They are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so, it’s no surprise that this war is going horribly.”

An example of Trump’s incoherence: He referred to the offensive as a “war” but also as an “excursion.” When asked which was more accurate, he said, “Well, it’s both. It’s an excursion that will keep us out of a war… For them, it’s a war. For us, it’s turned out to be easier than we thought.”

Got that? We’re currently in a war that will keep us out of a war, except for our enemy, for whom it’s an actual war — a couple of days after he said the U.S. had already won the war, which we’ll win soon, which we haven’t won enough, which is both over and just getting started. Want more? Somehow, President Businessman and his White House staffers were caught unprepared by the surge in oil prices. According to one official, “It was insane. It absolutely surprised the administration.” Robert LaRosa Sr.

Brooklyn: I’m so repulsed by what’s going on in and around Iran for so many reasons, they are too numerous to list here, but I’m also very tired of this war of choice being described as an “excursion.”........

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