The American Conservative:
One of the more common positive reactions to Trump’s awful Afghanistan speech was to praise it as “presidential.” Since it is now commonplace for our presidents to start and escalate wars with little or no debate, it is true that Trump was being “presidential” last night, but it also shows why it shouldn’t be considered a compliment. Committing to increase troop levels while offering no coherent or discernible strategy for the war they are being sent to fight is certainly “presidential,” but it is also horrible leadership. Acknowledging that the war has not been successful after sixteen years, Trump nonetheless vowed to continue it indefinitely without any explanation as to why this time escalation would succeed where it had failed before. There is nothing admirable about this, and the fact that Trump is being lauded for it confirms that there is something very wrong in our political culture and in our media.
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