They were better, but no one knew we idiot Americans would elect and then reelect a traitorous Un-American Anti-American into the White House. Every enemy to America and what she stands for is celebrating our pitiful leadership. Even little kids in Central America are ignoring our POTUS and our laws.
Temporarily. Anything you do in that point of the world is pointless because it always devolves back to the tribal sectarian situation it was originally.
Certainly not worth American lives.