Falcon Hawke
Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read

Great synopsis of the situation. Our military should be the tip of the spear if we need to be there at all, and they have been up to it for two and a half centuries. Which feels a lot like how long we have been in Afghanistan. Trump being Trump, of course, will always do the thing that makes money for his supporters, but of course that is the wrong direction, and yet that is where we will likely be going. Passing up an opportunity to get money to Prince, for example, is something that Trump would be unlikely to resist. I hope I am wrong, but Trump doesn’t understand much about any of this, so we’ll see how it develops with an unqualified President choosing alternatives where money for friends is one of the choices.

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